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What is the difference between end and finish ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between end and finish ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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end, and finish mean the same thing. Usually people use "end" in sentences such as, "the end of the book", "the end of the road", "this story has no end". Commonly it's used to describe the end of something.
Where the word "finish" is more used for the completion of a task or objective "Did you finish your homework?" "She finished the race" "I finished the book"
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The words finish andend means the same, but differs slightly in their main contexts. The word 'finish' refers to extend where it limits and get completed, while the word 'end' refers to termination or stop of something. ... The word 'finish' refers to bring any task or work into its completion state.
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