Passive: other forms

Other structures that have passive characteristics are the get-passive and get/have something done:

The windows got broken. (Someone broke the windows.)

He’sgetting his hair coloured. (Someone is colouring his hair.)

We had our wooden floors painted. (Someone painted our wooden floors.)

We use these structures more commonly in speaking. They are similar to the passive because the agent of the action is not the subject.

See also:

Get passive

Have something done

• namesake
• namesakes
• name sb after sb
• name sb after someone
• name sb after something
• name sb after sth
• name someone after
• name someone after sb
• name someone after someone
• name someone after something
• name someone after sth
• name someone/something after someone/something
• name someone/something for someone/something
• name something after
• name something after sb
• name something after someone
• name something after something
• name something after sth
• namess
• name sth after sb
• name sth after someone
• name sth after something
• name sth after sth
• name-tag
• name tag