terminar y acabar

Question

hola no entiendo la diferencia entre "terminar por/participio" y "terminar de". por favor cuanteme!

Silvia Piriz · Accepted Answer

Hola Erdal
Aquí tienes la diferencia entre terminar de + infinitivo y acabar/terminar por + infinitivo/gerundio.
Un saludo
Silvia

Silvia Piriz · Answer

Hola Todd G.
Thank you for your feedback.
All of our articles are carefully written and reviewed by professional language teachers to ensure clarity, accuracy and consistency with real usage. In the lesson mentioned, we do provide several examples of both acabar/terminar por + infinitive/gerund and terminar de + infinitive to help illustrate the distinctions in context.
We’re always looking for ways to improve how concepts are presented, so we appreciate your suggestion about showing both structures side-by-side. 
If you have any specific parts you found unclear or would like further examples on, feel free to let us know — we’re happy to help!
Best
Silvia

Todd Greenwood · Answer

This is a poorly written article.  You could have made it a lot easier by presenting the same sentence in both ways.   You could have made it a lot easier to understand