Polite people hold the door open for others.

Meaning: This means that when you are entering or leaving a building or room, you should hold the door open for the person behind you so that they can enter or leave easily.

Choice of Words: Hold means to keep something in your hand or possession. Door is a movable barrier that opens and closes to allow people or things to enter or leave a building, room, or vehicle. Open means to make or become not closed or blocked. When you "hold the door open for others," you are keeping the door open so that someone else can enter or leave.

Alternative Expressions

Nice people let others go through the door first.

Meaning: This means that nice people don't push their way through the door first. They wait for others to go through before they go themselves. This shows that they are thinking about other people and that they care about their feelings.

Choice of Words: Nice people are people who are kind and friendly. Let means to allow someone to do something. Go through means to move from one side of something to the other. Door is a hinged or sliding barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle. First means before anyone else.

People with good manners wait for others to enter the doorway before they do.

Meaning: This means that people with good manners don't rush through the door. They wait for others to enter the doorway before they go themselves. This shows that they are respectful of other people and that they don't want to push them out of the way.

Choice of Words: People with good manners are people who follow the rules of polite behavior. Wait means to stay in one place until something happens. For others means for other people. To enter means to come or go into a place. Doorway is the opening in a wall or fence that a door fits into. Before means earlier in time.

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