Thursday 29 May 2014

complete, end or finish?


We use the verbs end and finish in similar ways, to mean ‘come to a stop’:

I think that his contract ends this month.

What time does the film finish?

We use finish to say that we complete something that we are doing. It emphasises that the process stops within a specific period of time. End would not normally be used in these examples:All these words mean the same, but generally, you use ‘finish’ for things that you do regularly, such as eating a meal or going to work.
I finish work at five.

‘Complete’ is used to mean to make whole.
The jigsaw puzzle is complete.

And ‘complete’ is also used to say that you have finished making or doing something that you are not going to do very often.
He completed his first novel in 1984.

You tend to use ‘end’ for finality.
World War One ended in 1918.

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