Mar 14, 2018 · I am familiar with " at the end" and " in the end" constructions, but I have found in "English Grammar in Use" book, the following sentences that contain "on the end": Question tags are mini-questions that we often put on the end of a sentence in spoken English. Put a question tag on the end of these sentences.

I have looked 'end' up in the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English, but it gives only 'by the end of the year" without further comments. I ask because I have a feeling that 'by the end' is used about the past (e.g. I managed to get it done by the end of August) and 'by end of' about the future (e.g. the report must be handed in by end of ...

end with [something] end [something] with [something] Notice that end in has a specific usage "the meeting ends in disaster" to specify the result, while "the meeting ends with disaster" states the sequence of unrelated events, "the show ended with another famous song". So if there is a logical connection you may use end in like in

Personal conclusion: Both Begin/End Start/End are good. But, if we are talking about date or time, start and end might be better. Because start means the beginning of a trip, it's more like how the time works, a liner trace, which can be imagined in the reader's mind. Begin and End lack this kind of visualizing meaning.

Oct 10, 2010 · Here is the entire sentence: To this end, we create two properties files with the correct root bundle name and the correct locale endings, one for English and one for Spanish. (Emphasis added.)

Dec 23, 2010 · If you wish to have a long extract put in quotation marks, say at the beginning: "Begin quote," and at the end: "End quote." Always indicate a new paragraph to the copyist by saying, "Paragraph." The use of "end quote" in the same sense as "unquote" was current by 1900. From George Horton, A Fair Brigand (1899):

The answer to your title question is general reference: 'mid-year exams' (or rarely, 'middle-of-year exams'), but 'end-of-year exams' or less commonly 'year-end exams'. As to why, perhaps it's because 'end-year' would seem to imply 1918 or 1945 say rather than December, but people feel uncomfortable using 'year-mid' as 'mid' as a noun is ...

May 5, 2012 · The phrase is also known in the form to make both ends of the year meet, which might strengthen that connection if we think of the usual end-of-year accounting, except that that form isn’t the original one and wasn’t recorded until Tobias Smollett used it in Roderick Random in 1748. I would go with 1 or 2.

Feb 13, 2015 · To this end means In order to achieve this goal. Whether you say in order to achieve this goal or in order to achieve that goal makes very little difference, if any. If your sentence was to win, he has to run to this / that end of the trail , there is a difference, with this , he has to start from the far side and come towards the speaker ...

Aug 28, 2014 · Due at or before a specific time on the date, such as the end of the workday for the person receiving the work. (the below veers off the topic of the word's usage, but I thought it was worth adding) Because of this ambiguity, it is extremely prudent to seek more clarification. At what time on that date does the deadline occur?