Review Unit 7

Present and past passive review

We form the passive with a form of the verb to be + the past participle of the main verb.
English is spoken all over the world.
My bike was stolen last night.

The present perfect passive
We form the present perfect with have/has been + past participle.
Our old house isn't there any more -it's been pulled down.
The rules of tennis haven't been changed for a long time.

The future passive
We form the future passive with will be / won't be + past participle.
Those trees will be cut down next month.
If you don't behave properly, you won't be invited again!

Causative have (have something done)
1. This structure has the form have+noun+past participle
I'm taking my camera to the shop. I'm going to have it repaired.
2. We use have something done when we talk about a service or function that someone else does for us.
I had my hair cut last week. (= I went to a hairdresser and a person cut my hair.)
My grandparents want to have their house painted. (=They want to pay a painter to paint their house.)
We've had our car repaired. (=We've taken our car to a garage and someone has repaired it for us. Now it's OK again.)