[Grammar] Usage of "Have" and "Make (with bare infinitive)".

[shahjehansoomro]

I have two queries to ask.

1. Can we use following sentences as same according to English Grammar rules and meaning?

# You have me laughing.
and

# you make me laugh.

2. If we use subject as "He" in following sentence instead of "They" then we will use "has" or "have" with it.

# They have you fighting.
and
# He has you fighting. Or He have you fighting.

 

[Raymott]

1. "You make me laugh" is a general statement. It doesn't necessarily relate to right now.
"You have me laughing" is unnatural, and better expressed as "You're making me laugh".

2. "He have" is ungrammatical.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I have two queries to ask.

1. Can we use following sentences as same according to English Grammar rules and meaning?

# You have me laughing.
and

# you make me laugh.

In AmE, "You have me laughing" is used. It is informal.

 

[lotus888]

It's generally used in the past tense.

You had me laughing.




--lotus

 

[MikeNewYork]

Google returns about the same number of hits for both tenses.

 

[shahjehansoomro]

Question #1

If we want to use "He" subject instead of "You" subject in "You have me laughing." sentence, will we change "have" into "has"?
Please correct following sentence if it is wrong.

# He has me laughing.


Question #2

Though usage of "Have" in the sentence like "you have me laughing." can also be used in (Present "have",Past"had",Future"will have") tenses.
I want to know can we also use it in "continuous tense"? as below:

# You are having me laughing. (Continuous tense)

Question #3

This question is related to Vocabulary. I always want to make my vocabulary strong.
I want to ask about " synonym words " that can we use synonym words any time anywhere? or meaning of some synonym words is same but usage is used in different scenario or situations.

 

[MikeNewYork]

1. If you use "he", you need to change the verb to "has".
2. I would not use that construction.
3. There are very few (some say there are none) "perfect" synonyms, two words that are completely interchangeable in all uses.

 

[Tdol]

You had me laughing.

This would be fine in BrE.