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- Complete or Completed - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"Complete" indicates a thing that has been finished "Completed" is a past-tense verb form, and while by itself means much the same thing as "complete", it has the additional implication of something that has been finished, and as a consequence, the word has additional implications of the process that completed the thing I would go with
- Job was completed, job has completed and job has been completed?
Mr A, Mowing at the job site has completed It could be better if I say: "Mowing was completed at the job site" or "mowing has been completed " But how odd was the original one? Do people consider that was just a typo or people can tell that I am not a native speaker because the structure of the sentence was incorrect?
- 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
- What is the difference between finished and completed?
In most cases where completed is correct you could say finished instead, but the reverse is not true Finished [verb]ing usually can't be changed to completed [verb]ing
- 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 ?
- 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
- passive voice - Testing complete vs Testing is completed - English . . .
Testing has been completed The difference is that present simple is used to talk about the way things are now, and present perfect is used about something that happened in the past (completion of the testing), that has an effect that lasts until the present time
- grammar - What is the difference between I almost completed. . . and I . . .
I almost completed Indicates an action in the past, which you were doing, and is all gone now So you say "I almost completed the running race, but had to stop half-way through " I have almost completed Means something is still ongoing, and you expect to finish soon "I have almost completed the race, there are only 500m to go " (The tense names give these two away - "almost completed" is past
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