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Weiyang Luo
The bottle is opened.=has been opened or is open now?
I mean does"The bottle is opened" mean the bottle'cap is not on or the cap is on but has been twisted off the plastic band beneath?I am sure I once heard it from native speaker.
Thank you.
Jul 15, 2013 11:39 AM
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All three mean the same thing. The bottle, which was at one time not opened, is now open. Sometime between then and now, someone or some thing opened it. If I am working in a bar, and I see three bottles of wine on a counter, I might ask my colleague, "which of these bottles is opened?", though I'd probably say "which one is open?"
July 15, 2013
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