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- eventually - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Use finally or eventually to say that something happens after a long time Finally we managed to get the car to start When she eventually turned up, the food was cold Use eventually or in the end to say what the result or outcome of something was They eventually got bored and went home In the end we decided to cancel the trip
- etymology - How did the meaning of eventually diverge from the French . . .
However, the adverb eventually has the strong "finally" sense and it is a good example of a false friend (faux ami) when compared to the etymologically related words in Germanic, Romance and West Slavic languages which have the "possibly" sense: éventuellement (French) eventuell (German and Swedish) eventualmente (Italian, Portuguese and Spanish)
- Yet is to already as what is to eventually? Could never do?
My non-native-English-speaking intuition tells me that the same word eventually wouldn't be appropriate in the negative sentence, the same way as already wouldn't in the first example Is there any truth in this? Assuming there is, I would normally use never + Past Indefinite to express the "opposite" 1 of eventually
- Eventually — in the past or by some point in the future
About the only way to use eventually with some form of past construction is if the person doing the sending has been long gone (dead, or in an unknown state) and the person making the statement has no way of knowing whether what was sent arrived For example, "There is no record that Caesar ever made good on his promise, but it is likely that
- punctuation - Is there precedent for eventually dropping apostrophes . . .
Originally those words were written with apostrophes in the place of the parts that were dropped So telephone was originally shortened to 'phone before being eventually shortened to phone Omnibus was originally 'bus before it was bus
- meaning - Gap fill: “Eventually”, “finally”, “ultimately” or . . .
Eventually, leadership qualities are fundamental = Not poor English, but a weak thought At the beginning, those qualities don't matter, but only after a long time ? Finally, leadership qualities are fundamental = As my closing thought in this paper, let me point out that leadership qualities are fundamental
- Is there a difference between eventually and in the future?
However, common synonyms of eventually include at last, finally, ultimately, in the end, all suggestive of later-rather-than-sooner, unlike future, which makes no commitment about when something will happen
- What is the English idiom for eventually getting it right after many . . .
I made up an idiom that I think describes what I want to say quite nicely: "If one shoots enough arrows at the target, one is sure to hit the bull's eye " An actual English idiom I know of that is
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