to get somebody to do something Has the structure: 'to get somebody to do something' always the meaning of 'persuading', 'convincing' somebody to do something? Or can it also mean that one tells somebody else to do something, or assigns him a task, or orders him to do something. without the special meaning of 'persuading'? For instance, if I say: 'I got the child to eat lunch at noon', does it have necessarily to mean that I persuaded the child to eat at that time, or could also mean that I simply prepared lunch for the child at that time and made him eat, without the meaning of 'persuading' him (because he didn't want to eat)? Thank you very much.