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all tasks were finished vs all tasks are finished

Both phrases are correct, but they're used in different contexts. 'All tasks were finished' is used to refer to a past event, while 'All tasks are finished' is used to talk about the current status of tasks.
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all tasks were finished

This phrase is correct when referring to tasks that were completed in the past.

This phrase is used to describe tasks that have already been completed in the past.

Examples:

  • All tasks were finished before the deadline.
  • Yesterday, all tasks were finished by noon.
  • Sep 24, 2014 ... At the same time this was a great test to show, that all tasks were finished as soon as a worker for the queue was available. AFAIS none ot the ...
  • Delegated tasks to team members and ensured that all tasks were finished in a timely manner. • High expectations of customer service and communication skills.
  • They were careful to see that all tasks were finished. We appreciated the fact that they allowed us to do much of the painting ourselves, enabling us to save on ...
  • tasks were loaded into the schedulers, and then kept going until all tasks were finished. Figure 5: Evaluations using the Image Stacking application. We see that  ...

Alternatives:

  • All tasks had been finished
  • All tasks were completed

all tasks are finished

This phrase is correct when referring to tasks that are currently completed.

This phrase is used to describe tasks that have been completed and are in the current state of being finished.

Examples:

  • All tasks are finished and ready for review.
  • As of now, all tasks are finished.
  • How to wait until all tasks are finished before running code. No problem. We won' t show you that ad again. Why didn't you like it? Uninteresting
  • This call will block current thread until all tasks are finished. Side note: you seem to be using Task , Parallel and Thread.SpinWait , which makes ...
  • Result now shown in UI until all tasks are finished even though I am adding in UI as individual task completes ...
  • In the following code I disable button before processing tasks and would like to enable it after all tasks are finished. List<Task> tasks = new ...

Alternatives:

  • All tasks have been finished
  • All tasks have been completed

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