It feels like I’ve been dealing with English for so long, yet only today in class did I realize that an entire major topic had slipped past me.
Many sentences don’t translate well directly into Russian.
“I won’t have you say such things. Where did you have them send the check?” — “Where did you ultimately arrange for them to send the check?”
What would you have me do? – What do you want me to do?
I won’t have you say such things. – I will not allow you to say such things.
We got our friends to come to dinner. – We persuaded our friends to come to dinner. / We managed to get our friends to come for dinner.
Another example from this group is “Let’s” – a contraction of Let us . Let us finish with it
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