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- What is the difference between finished and completed?
This perhaps reflects a distinction between finished as meaning "got done with" and completed as meaning "made whole": the author can be understood either to have got done with writing the novel or to have made the novel whole; but the reader can be understood only to have got done with reading it
- Complete or Completed - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
33 Complete, unlike completed, implies something whole or full Completed means finished, accomplished, or done A lot of the meaning overlaps, but I think completed gives a better sense of accomplishment, though it really depends on how you're using it
- complete or completed - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Complete: fully constituted of all of its parts or steps, fully carried out, or thorough Completed: to bring to an end or a perfected status Therefore, something is complete, or something has been or was completed However, in a lot of cases, you can use either In your case, I would use completed, to be consistent with the other terms you used (queued, started, finished ), and it sounds
- Have completed or had completed - English Language Learners Stack . . .
1 I have completed graduation in 2008 is wrong You can't use present perfect with specific time expressions, and "in 2008" is specific As @FumbleFingers says, graduated is a much better term here The above still applies Furthermore, note that the past perfect, versus simple perfect, is optional here for a couple of reasons (read this
- word choice - has been completed or is completed? - English . . .
Your two examples Repeat the steps for the next weekly report until the monthly report has been completed Repeat the steps for the next weekly report until the monthly report is completed are essentially equivalent both saying to complete the monthly report A slight nuance might be that since perfect tenses imply an ordering of events, your first example leaves the listener expecting
- present perfect - I have completed versus I had completed - English . . .
I completed all the tasks assigned How to convey this ? I have completed all the tasks or I had completed all the tasks Which one is correct ?
- Which is correct: have been completed or are completed
The requested modifications have been completed is better, because you are referring to a continuing action (you finished writing the code, but it will get tested next)
- Present perfect - the action is completed or not completed?
The fact that the Latin word perfectus translates as finished or completed does not mean that the present perfect construction, in modern English, can refer only to contexts where an action has been completed
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