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.
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I have completed my undergraduate degree at Harvard. Or I completed my undergraduate degree at Harvard. Which one is correct? The simple past variant or the present perfect one?
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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 ?
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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).
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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
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