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Opened vs open? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Is there are rule when to use opened vs open? I always get confused even though I've been speaking English as the dominant language for more than half my life E g Is the door open(ed)?
is open is opened - WordReference Forums "opened" is the past participle of "open" So yoiu would want to say "the shop has opened" Will open - future Open - present Has opened - past BUT, in this case - Both "The shop is open" and "The shop has opened" imply the same idea, which is "Time to go shopping"
will be open vs will be opened - WordReference Forums The 'opened' in b) is an past participle and it tells us the action of the owner of the counter And roughly speaking, the action 'open' will be achieved in an instance, the sentence b) is not a right one
The door was opened vs The door was open [duplicate] The door was opened This sentence is a passive It means 'somebody opened the door' in an active voice Here 'open' is used as a verb 'Open' is used in its past participle form I will give you a few more examples: The door was opened -> Somebody opened the door The food was eaten -> Somebody ate the food Both sentences have the same
was open vs was opened - WordReference Forums The point is, it says OPEN, not OPENED In a passive sentence, "The door was opened by Fred", this tells us who opened it, or that it has been opened, and that after this happened, the door was then open Here open is an adjective telling us the state of the door, but opened is a past participle, telling us what action took place
We are open or opened | WordReference Forums Got into a dispute how to say "We are open" or "opened" And why, in this case "open" without the "`ed" How do you explain this using the grammatic terms and rules, but not at the level of personal opinion and conjecture? What parts of speech these words are? The teacher managed to say
to be open to be opened - WordReference Forums Hi! I've already read several wordreference threads about this topic but I want you to check the following sentence please: "This letter is supposed to be opened after 20 years " Is 'opened' properly used? Or should I write 'open' instead? Many thanks!!
Which word should i use? Open and Opened - English Language Usage . . . "These cases are opened" is a passive construction that declares an event of opening these cases to take place For instance, if a judge could open cases by deeming them to be open, he could say "These cases are opened" (and bring his gavel down) to accomplish the opening of the cases
has been opened or has opened - WordReference Forums Were there additional directions about the sentence, loverofenglish? There are many ways to make a grammatically correct sentence from the given words, especially if you can change them (e g , "opened" rather than "open") That said, "A new school has recently been opened in (on) the New Road" is how we would normally phrase your option A