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Mosja Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Is this natural? Using "open"

I was having a radio on then I turned it off.

My friend said "What song is that? Can you open it?"

  

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mosja I was having This is a feature of Asian kinds of English. It would be better as I had .

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  • It would be better as I had .
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mosjaI was having

This is a feature of Asian kinds of English. It would be better as I had.

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mosja

I was having a radio I had the radio on. Then I turned it off.

My friend said "What song is that? Can you open it?"

No. "open" is not natural.

Can you turn the radio on again?

CJ

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mosja

I was having a radio on then I turned it off.

My friend said "What song is that? Can you open it?

No, "open" has the connotation of doing or revealing something with your hands, i.e. "open" the door, a letter, the window, a box and etc.... With a gadget, you should say" turn on", like turn on the computer, TV, heater and so on. For

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