On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 06:27:46 GMT, Miss Elaine Eos
<Misc@*your-shoes*PlayNaked.com> wrote:
>In article <d046b1$2oq$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl>,
> "Jacek Bukowicki" <j_bukowicki@parp.gov.pl> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> What difference may there be between:
>>
>> "HAVE sb DO sth" and "HAVE sb DOING sth" ?
>>
>> thanks in advance for any suggestions
>> jacek
>
>By "sb", do you mean "subject"? Then "sth" would be... "something"?
>
>"Have Fred do the dishes" means "arrange for Fred to do [wash] the
>dishes." It's similar to "Tell Fred to do the dishes."
>
>I can't think of any sentence of the form "have _?_ doing _?_." The
>other form you may mean is "has Fred done the dishes?" This is an
>interrogative asking whether or not Fred has done the task mentioned.
That's what I say... what's the friggin' difference?
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