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My name is Alicia.

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 firm.

The basic definition is to move something so that it is not in a closed position to open something toe open something.

So examples, Open the door.

It's hot in here.

You should open a window.

Okay, let's look at the congregations for this for present.

Open opens past opened past participle opened.

Progressive opening.

Yeah.

Now let's talk about some additional meanings for this firm.

1st 1 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 were talking about revealing something from inside a package or inside a container in the 1st 1 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 opened the container to reveal what's inside in the 2nd 1 This box is really hard to open.

Means this container in this box in this case is difficult to remove the top from are difficult to get to the inside.

It's difficult toe open this box.

Okay, The second division 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 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's opening Right now we would use opening on Lee in like very specific situations where, for example, we are standing in front of the department store and we can see the staff's unlocking the door or maybe opening the doors, eh?

So we can see the staff actually, uh, opening the shop to customer.

So that process of unlocking doors or maybe pulling up the blinds, the curtains.

Ah, that process is called opening the store.

So in that case, if we're seeing that process happened, 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 tense of this verb.

In the second sentence, the cafe opens at 9 a.m. It means the cafe starts its business at 9 a.m. We use opens to do that.

Instead, let's go to the third meaning.

Meaning three for this verb is to make something on the computer ready.

So the second meeting was to make something ready, like a business or a service.

We can also use this four 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 a cz 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 Web page 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 S O.

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 liketo open today's meeting by thanking you all for attending.

So in these sentences were 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 given 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 liketo open today's meeting by thanking you all for attending, so I'd like to I would like to open meeting.

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 like physically open their eyes.

I 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 example, sentences the speaker or someone involved in the sentence was caused to realize something, and we used the expression, open your eyes or to open someone's eyes, needing to cause them to realize something special.

So the second variation I want to talk about is to open up.

To open up to open up means to share your feelings or to share your motions, to talk about yourself, toe open up to people.

That's often what we say.

Like I wish she would open up to me, that 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 to 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 thes in your everyday life, too.

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.

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