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Ten sentences to choose the right periphrasis: dejar de (to stop), acabar de (to have just), acabar por (to end up), together with dejar and quitar as full verbs. A C2 test on nuances that even advanced students mix up.
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Acabar de + infinitive means to have just done something: Acabo de comprar un reloj. Acabar por + infinitive means to end up doing it: Acabé por convencerla.
Both mean to stop doing something, but dejar de is more general and is also used for giving up a habit: Deja de tratarme así; He dejado de fumar.
That a conversation ends in shouting. Acabar a + noun expresses the way something ends: acabar a gritos, acabar a golpes.
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