have / having champagne brought to our room

[Barb_D]

Sorry, I should have quoted the post I was referring to - I mean the one about the painting.

[Verona_82]

That "have" is the have of possession, not causation.

It's all a question of context. 'Have', followed immediately by 'painted by...' is possessive .

That's the point I was (so desperately) trying to make! You seem to approve the possessive usage of 'have' in the painting example, but say it's totally out of the question in the champagne one. Both look pretty much the same to me.

[bhaisahab]

This would suggest that it's possible to interpret HAVE in this way in Verona's We have champagne brought up to our room specially.

I think it is possible.

I think it would need a comma after "champagne" to make it possible.

[BobK]

- I said 'break the tie', which I did with words. You could do it with punctuation; in speech, you could do it with a pause.

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