Closed is an adjective that means not open. Upon is formal and less commonly used than on. The passive voice for shut the door would be 'Let the door be shut'. This is an imperative sentence with an underlying instruction in an active form.
If you describe a dispute or a legal case as open-and-shut , you mean that is easily decided or solved because the facts are very clear. It's an open-and-shut case. The hospital is at fault. If someone closes the door on something, they stop thinking about it or dealing with it.
The use of salt for preservation has made it a symbol of life and works against impure and unclean spirits. One of the most common uses of salt in spiritual practice is to form a boundary with it. A line of salt across the path of a doorway or a windowsill will bar entry to unwanted spirits. If you mean the shop is not open tomorrow then " will be closed " is an adjective, though it's more direct to say "The shop is closed tomorrow. He closed his eyes, concentrating. She piled one arm high and closed the door.
Alex walked in and closed the door to the other bedroom. He closed his eyes and remained silent a long time. Dec 20, In theory " will be closing " means " will be performing the action of closing " while " will be closed " just means that it will no longer be opened.
Such instances of shut might be considered set phrases. Another thing to be wary of is that close has a homograph same spelling, different pronunciation meaning "near". It would be hard to come up with a comprehensive list.
You just have to pay attention to what meanings each as, and see which ones are had by only one. If you want to replace one with the other, you have to check whether the meaning survives. One are to be careful in is phrasal verbs. Also, the past tense and past participle of "shut" are just "shut", while the past tense of "close" is "closed".
So you shouldn't say "The door has been shutted" or "The door has been close". From other answers we can see that English speakers do not always agree about when these words are used, or should be used, even if we only consider their use in isolation rather than in expressions such as shut up and close down. I'm hard pressed to explain why I would more usually say. This may be due to my Yorkshire origins: shut sounds stronger in an Yorkshire accent.
If we go back to origins of words I note this etymology site has. I'm here because I'm reading a mystery from by Patricia Wentworth, The Gazebo, where a character finds a door 'only closed, not shut'. The door is considered not properly shut because the catch hasn't engaged. I have always considered shut and closed interchangeable and do not recollect anyone using it in the manner Wentworth does. I can only assume that the difference in use has been lost in the decades since the book was written, perhaps just as a door just open a little would now probably just be described as 'open' and not 'ajar' , so 'closed' could mean a little bit more closed than ajar?
To "shutter a window" means to close the panels we call shutters functional ones now being very rare apart from historic properties , and is orthogonal to "shut the window", which would be taken to refer to the sashes or casements or whatever components the window itself has.
Always bothered me that in The Night Before Christmas, he "Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash", when being inside the house he must have done them in the opposite order. And "shuttered" is often used to mean "boarded up" or "closed permanently", as in a failed business. But I would not draw inferences on the use of "shut" from the use of "shutter". With "shut" vs "shut down", we have the issue of gradual loss of prepositions from idiomatic phrases, which is why in a group of angry people, the Americans are pissed while everyone else is pissed off, until they go get pissed to forget about it.
As for closed vs shut, "shut" is more impactful, a little less polite, a little less formal. I think differences are idiomatic, stylistic, regional and conventional, not structural. I doubt there's a case of either that wouldn't sound normal to some English speaker, somewhere.
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When used as verbs , close means to remove a gap. When used as adjectives , close means closed, shut, whereas shut means closed. To remove a gap. To obstruct an opening. To move so that an opening is closed.
To make e. To grapple; to engage in close combat. To finish, to terminate. To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
To come to an end.
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