OPEN Basic Verbs Learn English Grammar

wanna speak real English from your first

lesson sign up for your free lifetime

account at English class 101.com

hi everybody my name is Alisha welcome

back to know your verbs in this episode

we’re going to talk about the verb open

let’s go

let’s look at the basic definition for

this verb the basic definition is to

move something so that it is not in a

closed position to open something to

open something so examples open the door

it’s hot in here

you should open a window okay let’s look

at the conjugations for this verb

present open opens past opened past

participle opened progressive opening

now let’s talk about some additional

meanings for this verb first one the

first additional meaning is to remove

from a container part of a container

like to reveal something so some

examples of this open your birthday

presents this box is really hard to open

so in both of these we’re talking about

revealing something from inside a

package or inside a container in the

first one the first example sentence I

said open your birthday presents meaning

like reveal your birthday presents

they’re in a bag or in a box or

something so open the box open the

container to reveal what’s inside

in a second one this box is really hard

to open means this container this box in

this case is difficult to like remove

the top from or difficult to get to the

inside it’s difficult to open this box

okay the second addition no meaning is

to be ready as in to be ready for

business or to be ready for service some

examples I think the department store is

opening right now the cafe opens at 9:00

a.m. so this use of open refers to the

time that a business or a service starts

so in the first example sentence I said

I think the department store is opening

right now in that case I’m using the

progressive or the continuous tense the

department store is opening right now we

would use opening only in like very

specific situations where for example we

are standing in front of the department

store and we

can see the staffs unlocking the door or

maybe opening the doors so we can see

the staff actually opening the shop to

customer so that process of unlocking

doors or maybe pulling up the blinds the

the curtains that process is called

opening the store so in that case if

we’re seeing that process happen we can

say I think the department store is

opening right now so and that’s maybe

one of the only cases where we would use

the progressive tents of this verb in

the second sentence the cafe opens at

9:00 a.m. it means the cafes starts its

business at 9:00 a.m.

we use opens to do that instead let’s go

to the third meaning meaning three four

this room is to make something on the

computer ready

so the second meaning was to make

something ready like a business or a

service we can also use this for

computers things on computers examples I

couldn’t open the file you sent can you

open the slide show please so both of

these mean opening something preparing

something on a computer so a file we

could use it for software if you want as

well you could use it for email like

open your email whatever any time you

need to prepare something on a computer

and like start that thing or you need to

look at like a new document you need to

look at a webpage or whatever you can

use the word open to describe that open

your browser open a web page open a file

all of these we can use the word open to

do so the fourth additional meaning for

this lesson is to begin an activity to

begin an activity so this typically

refers to activities where people gather

for something let’s look at some

examples

she opened the conference with an

inspiring speech I’d like to open

today’s meeting by thanking you all for

attending

so in these sentences we’re using open

to mean start or I’d like to begin

something by the first example sentence

was she opened the conference with an

inspiring speech meaning she began the

conference so that means she as the

first item of business I suppose

in the conference the first thing she

did was give an inspiring speech that

was the start of the conference the

beginning of the activity that is the

conference she opened the conference

with an inspiring speech same thing in

the second sentence I’d like to open

today’s meeting by thanking you all for

attending so I’d like to I would like to

open meaning I would like to begin

today’s meeting or the first thing I

would like to do in today’s meeting is

say thank you so open means like

starting the activity by doing something

let’s go along to a couple of variations

of this verb now the first variation is

to open someone’s eyes to open someone’s

eyes this does not literally mean like

to walk over to someone and like

physically open their eyes I suppose you

could do that like open your brother’s

eyes that’s sort of weird like that’s

not really an expression that we have

this expression to open someone’s eyes

though means to make someone realize

something something they didn’t realize

before so it was kind of like shocking

or surprising something like that

examples you really opened my eyes to

how delicious Thai food is I think the

experience of planning a big event

really opened his eyes to how difficult

it is so in both of these examples

sentences the speaker or someone

involved in the sentence was caused to

realize something and we use the

expression open your eyes or to open

someone’s eyes meaning to cause them to

realize something special

so the second variation I want to talk

about is - open up - open up - open up

means to share your feelings or to share

your emotions to talk about yourself to

open up to people that’s often what we

say like ah I wish he would open up to

me about sort of thing examples of this

I wish you would open up and tell me

about yourself it’s really hard for her

to open up before she trusts people so

open up - open up means to share

yourself like to be relaxed and be able

to easily talk about yourself and talk

about your emotions so we don’t have

actually we do have the opposite closed

down like oh no she closed down like she

stopped sharing about herself so open up

would mean to share openly the opposite

would be to close down so opening up

typically at least in Western culture is

regarded as quite a positive thing to be

able to share about yourself and to have

kind of enough trust established with

another person that you can be open to

use it as an adjective those are a few

variations and a few different meanings

of the verb open I hope that you learned

a few new things and maybe you can use

these in your everyday life - of course

if you have any questions if you know a

different way to use the verb open

please let us know in the comments as

well if you liked the video don’t forget

to give us a thumbs up subscribe to the

channel and check us out at English

class 101.com for other good English

study resources thanks very much for

watching this episode of know your

births and I’ll see you again soon

bye Mike

[Music]