END  (noun)

   --- the final part of a period of time, event, story     (opposite: beginning)

                -The sun sets at the end of the day  

                -Proverb: All good things must come to an end.   

               -The handsome Prince was married to Sleeping Beauty

               and they lived happily ever after. (this is the end of the fairy tale) 

  ---the farthest part of something

               Turn right at the end of the road.   

                You must go to the end of the queue.        

 END (verb)

         When a situation, an activity ends, it stops.

                     World War II ended in 1945.

                      One in three marriages ends in divorce.

  FINISH (verb)

     --- to bring something to an end

            Are you sure you will finish this job by Friday?

        That horse finished second behind favourite Big Brown.

     ---to eat, drink the last of something

           I have finished the coffee, the children have finished the cake

FINISH (noun)

               the finish line: a line marking the end of a race                      

   the final details :  Look at the finish of this chest of drawers!  

English exercise "End / Finish" created by lili73 (15-06-2008) with The test builder
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1.-Where is the bank, please?
- You can't miss it, it's that tall building right at the finishingfinishend of the street.
2.
Sarah's got an important work to finishingendfinish before the endfinishfinishing of the week.
3.
Yesterday I received some news from Betty and Fred. Sadly their marriage of twenty years endedfinishedfinishes in divorce.
4.
After the children had endedfinishedfinish doing their homework, the whole family went to the park. .
5.
Did you come back late yesterday evening? No, the meeting came to an enda finish at six.
6.
Frank crossed the finishendending line well ahead of the other runners.
7.
-Can you lend me your book? -No, I haven't finishendedfinished it yet.
8.
My brothers will finishendingend military service at the same time, at the finishend of this year.
'This is not the finishend , it is not even the beginning of the endfinish.
But it is perhaps the finishend of the beginning.'