{"id":72257,"date":"2019-09-18T06:18:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72257"},"modified":"2019-09-18T06:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:18:16","slug":"end-vs-finish-english-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/end-vs-finish-english-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"End vs. Finish | English Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">These words have similar meanings, but there are some differences.<\/p>\n<h3>Finish + object<\/h3>\n<p><b>Finish <\/b>is used to talk about getting to the end of something or completing an activity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you <b>finished reading <\/b>that novel?<\/li>\n<li>You never let me <b>finish a sentence. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that <b>finish <\/b>can be followed by an <b>-ing form. <\/b><\/p>\n<h3>End + object<\/h3>\n<p><b>End <\/b>is used to talk about stopping or breaking something off.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have decided to <b>end our affair. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>End <\/b>cannot be followed by an <b>-ing form. <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I decided <b>to stop seeing her. <\/b> (NOT I decided to end seeing her.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These words have similar meanings, but there are some differences. Finish + object Finish is used to talk about getting to the end of something or completing an activity. Have you finished reading that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1450,1449,1448],"class_list":["post-72257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-difference-between-end-and-finish","tag-end-or-finish","tag-end-vs-finish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72258,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72257\/revisions\/72258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}