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Taka Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Open/opened

What difference do you native speakers see between 'with one's eyes open' and 'with one's eyes opened'? No difference at all and they are totally interchangeable?
  

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The first merely states the condition, a descriptive adjective only; the second states the result of an action and posits an agent.

— Mister Micawber

  • The first merely states the condition, a descriptive adjective only; the second states the result of an action and posits an agent.
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The first merely states the condition, a descriptive adjective only; the second states the result of an action and posits an agent.
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Then what is the descriptive-adjective-only version of 'with one's eyes closed' going to be like?
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It has the same form: 'with one's eyes closed'. You should know by now that the two words work differently.
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