Have/Get + Person + Infinitive Exercises

English has two structures for describing situations where you arrange for another person to do something. Have someone do (with the bare infinitive) is used when you give an instruction or use your authority: "The doctor had the nurse take my blood pressure." Get someone to do (with the to-infinitive) is used when you persuade, convince, or encourage someone: "I got my sister to lend me her car." The verb form after the person signals the type of relationship between the speaker and the doer.

A key distinction is formality. "Have someone do" is neutral or formal, and common in professional English: "The director had the team present their findings." "Get someone to do" is more informal and suggests that some effort or persuasion was needed: "She finally got her flatmate to clean the kitchen." In everyday English, "get someone to do" is far more common because most of our requests involve asking rather than instructing. Both patterns are tested in Cambridge B2 First use-of-English tasks, where you must choose the correct infinitive form after "have" or "get."