Alexander Koryagin:
AS>> I will have him repair my car. (1)
AK>
AK> "Repair" is a verb, and you use the direct object here.
AK> And therefore you had to use "to" before the verb.
No, I hand't. This usage needs the bare infinitive.
AK> "He asked me to wait a little".
You ask someome to do something, but you have someone do it.
There is a qulitative difference between /ask/ and /have/.
AS>> You may call it a past participal in the second
AS>> instance, because it partakes of the verb, or, is
AS>> partially a verb.
AK>
AK> I don't understand your logic here.
Have you wondered why it is called participle? What
definition of participle do you use? Here is the one I use,
by Goold Brown --
A Participle is a word derived from a verb,
participating the properties of a verb, and of an
adjective or a noun; and is generally formed by adding
/ing/, /d/, or /ed/, to the verb: thus, from the verb
rule, are formed three participles, two simple and one
compound; as, 1. /ruling/, 2. /ruled/, 3. /having
ruled/.
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