{"id":176,"date":"2009-10-23T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/?p=176"},"modified":"2009-10-23T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:00:54","slug":"the-passive-advanced-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/2009\/10\/23\/the-passive-advanced-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passive &#8211; Advanced Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we say that we have something done in English, it means that a service is done for us by someone else.<\/p>\n<p><em>He has just had his car washed.<br \/>\nThey had their house painted.<br \/>\nShe\u2019s having two teeth pulled out tomorrow.<br \/>\nI had a new heater put in last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It can also express an unpleasant situation:<\/p>\n<p><em>I had my car stolen last week so I need to travel by bus now.<br \/>\nKelly had her purse stolen while she was shopping.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When we use the expression <em>get something done<\/em>, it is often similar to having something done but it has a feeling that something must be done, there is an obligation.<\/p>\n<p><em>I need to get these exercises done by noon or else I&#8217;m in trouble with my teacher.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The verb get can also be used instead of be in the passive, mainly in spoken English.<\/p>\n<p><em>She got hit by a car when she was crossing the street.<br \/>\nThe thief got arrested when he was breaking into that house.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"234\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2009\/10\/paintedl1-234x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2009\/10\/paintedl1-234x350.jpg 234w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2009\/10\/paintedl1.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><p>When we say that we have something done in English, it means that a service is done for us by someone else. He has just had his car washed. They had their house painted. She\u2019s having two teeth pulled out tomorrow. I had a new heater put in last week. It can also express an&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/2009\/10\/23\/the-passive-advanced-uses\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[224329],"tags":[226534],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avancado","tag-artigos-gramatica"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}