They broke open the packing cases. Is that sentence grammatical? Is "break open" an verb phrase?

xiaokaoy

25 de jun de 2013 05:09

That statement is perfectly correct

25 de junho de 2013

break open, 强行破开，砸开的意思

25 de junho de 2013

'They are breaking open packing cases' is present tense, whereas 'They break open packing cases' is a general statement e.g. 'Goverment officials break open packing cases when they suspect they contain something illegal' - that's not referring to something specific but something that generally happens now.

25 de junho de 2013

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