{"id":72290,"date":"2019-09-19T06:27:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72290"},"modified":"2019-09-19T06:27:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:27:58","slug":"ive-finished-vs-im-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/ive-finished-vs-im-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Finished vs. I&#8217;m Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\"><b>Finished<\/b> is the past participle form of <b>finish<\/b>. As a past participle, it can be used to form perfect tenses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <b>have finished<\/b> the job.<\/li>\n<li>She<b> has not yet finished<\/b> working on the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Finished <\/b>can also be used as an adjective after a form of <b>be<\/b> (is, am, are, was and were). In this case, it means <i>ready<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the sentence<i> I have nearly finished<\/i> means more or less the same as the sentence <i>I am nearly finished<\/i>. Both sentences can be used to mean <i>I am almost ready<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The structure <b>be + finished<\/b> is mainly used in informal English.<\/p>\n<p>Study the examples given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wait a minute. I\u2019m nearly finished. \/ I\u2019ve nearly finished.<\/li>\n<li>I went to the studio to get the photos, but they <b>weren\u2019t \/ hadn\u2019t finished<\/b>. (= The photos weren\u2019t ready.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished is the past participle form of finish. As a past participle, it can be used to form perfect tenses. I have finished the job. She has not yet finished working on the project.&#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":[1500,1499],"class_list":["post-72290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-i-am-finished","tag-i-have-finished"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72290","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=72290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72291,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72290\/revisions\/72291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}