[Grammar] Sentence formation

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saleem_a_khan

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Can you please send me the form of the following sentence.

I had my suit cleaned.

e.g. subject + had + object Is this correct?

Saleem
 

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Can you please send me the form of the following sentence.

I had my suit cleaned.

e.g. subject + had + object Is this correct?

Saleem

Let me try
subject (personal pronoun) + predicate (lexical verb) + possessive pronoun + object (noun) + modifier (past participle)

I might be wrong.
 

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Can you please send me the form of the following sentence.

I had my suit cleaned.

e.g. subject + had + object Is this correct?

Saleem


***** NOT A TEACHER *****


(1) If I understand my high school-level grammar books

correctly, this is how I would parse (analyze) your nice sentence:

I = subject.

had = verb.

my suit = object (my = possessive adjective; suit = noun).

cleaned = past participle that refers to "my suit." I believe that

most grammar books call "cleaned" in your sentence a so-called

objective complement.

If you only said, "I had my suit," no one would understand. They

would ask: You had your suit what? In other words, you have to

complete the meaning of the object ( "complement" comes from the

word "complete").

Other examples (thanks to Mr. Raymond Murphy's Grammar in Use):

I want to have my picture taken./ Bill had the roof repaired./ We are

having the house painted.
 
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