If the uses of in the end and at the end aren’t clear to you, keep reading – they’ll make perfect sense in the end, as it’s explained at the end of this introduction. Hehe…
At the endrefers to a specific time or location, while in the endis an idiomatic phrase that means “in conclusion” or “in summary.”
Consider these examples:
At the end of the day we went home. In the end, it was a long day.
At the end of the game, our team won. In the end, our team won.
We were happy in the end. We weren’t happy at the end of the movie.
The heroes won in the end. The heroes celebrated at the end of their journey.
In the end
In the end means “finally,” “after a long time,“ or, “when everything is considered.“ It is often followed by a comma. Here are some sentences with this idiom:
We worked hard, and in the end, we achieved our goal.
In the end, everything is going to be fine.
All will turn out well in the end.
In the end we decided not to buy it.
I waited for a bus for an hour and, in the end, I decided to take a cab.
At the end
At the end is most commonly used followed by of, to refer to the end of a specific noun. This noun can be a physical object (book), a period of time (day), an event (class, game, concert), a place (street, avenue), or something more abstract (life).
Here are some sentences with at the end + of:
I’ll meet you here at the end of the concert.
At the end of the class, the teacher said she wanted to talk to me.
We all went home at the end of the game.
There’s this gigantic house at the end of the street.
I will have an answer at the end of the day, ok?
At the end of his life, he had no regrets.
Put a period at the endof every sentence.
I pay the phone bill at the end of each month.
There is a brick building at the endof the road.
My boss asked me to stay one more hour at the end of my shift.
The bathroom is the last door on the left at the end of the corridor.
Note: sometimes we can also omit the of with at the end, for example at the end of a sentence, but even so it is possible to see that we are talking about the end of something.
Example:
• This book is amazing, but I can’t tell you what happens at the end.
Also, remember that one of the best ways to learn them is by watching how they are used, when reading a book or watching a movie or a series. Notice how they are used in context.
We all know that it’s polite to say “Thank you” to someone after they’ve done something good or helpful.
And as you hear words like “please,” “thank you,” “sorry,” “excuse me,” learning your manners in English can help you sound like a native speaker. If you don’t use them in certain circumstances, it even doesn’t look like you’re speaking English! Yeah! That’s what my experience with the English language tells me!
So if someone thanks you for something, what could you say in reply?
“You’re welcome” is by far the most common response, and there is nothing wrong with using it. That is the standard reply, and although it is, most of the time, an automatic and natural response, it’s a little bit overused.
So it’s essential to expand your vocabulary and knowledge of English so that you have different responses, which do have slightly different meanings.
“You’re Welcome” is part of good manners
in English
If you want to sound more native, though, then in many cases, you might not even say “you’re welcome” but a variation instead!
So here is a little skit that shows you other ways to respond to a “thank you.” Try to watch it with English subtitles off. Listen carefully to pronunciation. Then watch it again with the English subtitles on, if you need them. Do that with all the videos below.
So here are some useful expressions to respond to people’s thanks.
You’re welcome. (neutral)
You’re quite welcome. / You’re very welcome. / You’re so welcome. / You’re truly welcome. (formal)
Don’t mention it. (informal)
No worries. / Don’t worry about it. (informal)
It was no problem. / Not a problem. / No problem. (informal workplace/social) / No prob! (slang)
And to finish, one more thing! Next time you thank someone, don’t be surprised if they respond with “Thank YOU!” If someone says this, it means that not only were you helped, but you were helping someone else in return.
Southern hemisphere winter officially began on Monday, June 21, and runs until September 22, 2021.
Brrr! The Cold weather lesson shows some vocabulary to describe these sometimes sunny days, sometimes rainy, or days when the winter temperatures dip low.
And the only thing I can think of, to tell people is:
“Make sure you keep warm!”
To keep/stay warm means to keep your body warm, meaning wear the right clothes or do the correct activity or thing to keep yourself warm (referring to body temperature).
Stay warm implies that the person is already warm. So, like, if a delivery guy comes to your house and complains about the cold while you are having a friendly conversation, as he leaves, you might say, “Keep warm today!”
So, they are often used as a closing, in place of or immediately following “goodbye.”
Stay is a less active verb than keep. Keep indicates more intentionality. They’re interchangeable.
Next, a few tips to deal with cold weather. Listen to them and look up the words you don’t know. Notice pronunciation and how words are combined. Take notes.
For other closing expressions related to the pandemic, check out Stay safe.
Hmmm, I wasn’t quite right about this particular combination of words. I’ve seen a lot in these at least 30 years dealing with the English language, and that’s not enough when we think of the number of possibilities we have to communicate something. There are certainly the more usual ways in which some words are often used together, but sometimes other combinations are possible. That’s when doing a bit of research comes in handy.
So should we say: take or get the vaccine?
First, check it out the lesson Get or take? to situate yourself regarding the usage of these two verbs because how to use them, is a question shared by many English learners.
Could you grasp the difference in usage between get and take? If your answer is yes, we can now go back to our question above: take or get the vaccine?
CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national public health agency of the United States, mostly combines the word vaccine with the verbs get and receive.
To understand the getting COVID-19 above, check the Verbo “to get” lesson.
The Oxford Collocations Dictionary gives the verbs have and receive.
But yeah, to combine the word vaccine with the verb totake seems to be possible as this article from the World Economic Forum shows! And it makes sense if we think that we take medication.
So, although on the one hand the word vaccine is more commonly combined with the verb to get, on the other hand, we can assume that yes, it’s possible to say:
“My parents took the vaccine.”
So I want to thank my dear students for the insights you bring to class, things that might have never crossed my mind. This teaches me to be more careful and slow to jump to conclusions. I know it’s a lesson I’ll forget sometimes, but I’ll keep trying.
