Andrei  +  91903 Wed, 20 Apr 05 05:20 PM 1. I opened the door. 2. The door is opened. Are the above sentences fine? Could you open the door? This is fine. No doubt about it. Andrei Joined on Sat, May 29 2004 Full Member 387

	abbie1948  +  91919 Wed, 20 Apr 05 05:40 PM "The door is opened." - it depends upon the context. If you want it to match "I opened the door." then you need to use the simple past tense, "The door was opened" abbie1948 Joined on Thu, Mar 24 2005 England Senior Member 2,657 Hope that helps. Abbie Tenses, Simple Past, Past Tenses

	Andrei  +  91932 Wed, 20 Apr 05 06:17 PM In the school, there are certain rooms which contain expensive routers, switiches etc. Usually those rooms are locked because of the expensive equipment. The teacher must come and open the door. Could he tell the students the following: The door is opened. His message was that the students could go into the room and work with the routers. Andrei

	khoff  +  91945 Wed, 20 Apr 05 07:22 PM In this context I would say," the door is open now..." or "the door has been opened." khoff Joined on Sun, Mar 6 2005 Senior Member 3,264 Native speaker of American English (but not a grammar expert)

	CalifJim  +  92042 Thu, 21 Apr 05 01:43 AM Could he tell the students the following: The door is opened. Yes, but it is not very idiomatic. "The door is opened" is really more used for habitual actions: "The door is opened every day at noon." "The door is always opened very ceremoniously." If the idea is just that the door stands in a certain state, the sentence is more likely to be: "The door is open". CJ CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,389 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche

	paco2004  +  92063 Thu, 21 Apr 05 06:29 AM As you know, "open" can be both an adjective and a verb. Which came first, the adjective "open" or the verb "open"? The answer is it was the adjective "open". The adjective "open" is used to describe a thing like a gate as it is in a state of "being up". The verb "open" was coined after the adjective "open" and it is used to mean to "make something open". You can make a past participle "opened" by adding -ed to "open". The past participle "opened" is, however, used only for making perfect constructs and action passive constructs. You can never use 'opened' as a state-indicating adjective. It is because you have already the adjective "open" for this purpose. (o) "an open door" (x) "an opened door" (o) The door was opened when the car got close to it. [action passive] (o) The door was open when the car got close to it. [state adjective] (o) The door has been left open since I opened it. (?) The door has been left opened since I opened it. paco paco2004 Joined on Wed, Nov 17 2004 Senior Member 4,095 In Japan today even dogs are learning how to bow-wow in English. Verbs

	paco2004  +  92099 Thu, 21 Apr 05 09:18 AM You can never use 'opened' as a state-indicating adjective. An afterthought: We may say rather "refrigerate opened cans" than "refrigerate open cans". paco2004