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HMFindlay Posted 20 years ago
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0Why is the Commonwealth Games pronounced OPEN and then CLOSED?02br
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00The shop is OPEN and then CLOSED?02br
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00Why not we use OPENED? 05002br
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00Can someone explain to me 051010id711id7
  

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0We use 01i 00open02i 00 and 01i 00closed02i 00 as the adjectives. 0-

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  • 0We use 01i 00open02i 00 and 01i 00closed02i 00 as the adjectives.
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0We use 01i00open02i00 and 01i00closed02i00 as the adjectives. No reason that I know of, beyond independent historical development of the use of the two words.0-
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0 Strange, isn't it? We drop the 01i00ed02i00 on 01i00opened02i00 when we use it as an adjective, but we keep the 01i00ed02i00 on 01i00closed02i00 in the same situation.02br
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01i00I opened the door. It is now open.02br
00 I closed the door. It is now closed.
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0So am I still incorrect to say: The can will be opened up soon during dinner and The can has been opened up when we had lunch last night.0-
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0 You are still incorrect to say that, yes, but not because of 01i00opened02i00, which is correct because here it is a verb. (01i00up02i00 is not required, by the way.)02br
00 It is highly unusual to talk about the opening of a can during dinner.02br
00 Aside from that, 01i00soon during dinner02i00 is
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0OK. Forgive my bad English 05002br
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00So it's not correct to say ' the can was open'?010id7
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0May I give my opinion, since Calif isn't online?02br
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00"The can was open" is correct because it is an adjective here; it means its lid was no longer on.0-
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0Sure you can. So the can was open and it was opened up by me or open up by me? 05000 I think it was open and was opened up by me but I don't know 05100 I;m dyingly confuzzled 052010id711id712id7
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0"Open" is the adjective.02br
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00"Open01b00ed02b00" is either the simple past or the past participle of the verb "to open", describing the action of, ... opening something. 02br
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00If you use the adjective form, then there shouldn't be an agent compl. (by X): "the door is open". If you use the passive voice of "to open", then
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00So the can was open and it was opened up by me.12blockquote
10You've got it, HM.0-
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