One Tiny, Itsy-Bitsy Little Grammar Help?

[Techy]

Mind if you guys help me with this one tiny, itsy-bitsy little grammar problem? It's simple: Which example is better?

Completion of tasks or Task completion?

I'm not really sure what field of grammar this problem goes under, but anyways, I've always wondered which one is better to use. Perhaps how it is used in a sentence is what varies between the two?

Any help is appreciated

Mods you can close this if there's a thread dedicated to this or that it's too "simple" to be opened as a thread.

 

[Omnis]

Doin' stuff.

 

[cjmpe]

If you provide a example of how you are trying to use this, it might be easier for someone to provide some help.

For example, not that it is necessarily correct, but if I was building a spreadsheet based list of items to be completed in a project, I might title one of the columns as Task Completion, since it is the shorter choice.

 

[Techy]

If you provide a example of how you are trying to use this, it might be easier for someone to provide some help.

For example, not that it is necessarily correct, but if I was building a spreadsheet based list of items to be completed in a project, I might title one of the columns as Task Completion, since it is the shorter choice.

Sorry, I'll provide a couple now:

On this set, I use both in the same situation.
1) I envy the completion of tasks than board games.
2) I envy task completion than board games.

On this set, I use both differently.
1) The completion of tasks is important for today's lesson.
2) Task completion is the primary moral in this anecdote.

@ Omnis

Like whaaaat?

 

[Omnis]

You know, tasks.

 

[W3H5]

On this set, I use both differently.
1) The completion of tasks is important for today's lesson.
2) Task completion is the primary moral in this anecdote.

I would say either one is acceptable. That's the benefit of the English language. It's very flexible regarding the vocabulary and sentence structures.

1 sounds like something a foreigner speaking English would say, the way it's not wrong but doesn't seem the most natural way of posing the sentence. 2 is more like something that would come from someone who had not thought about the sentence too much and had just spouted it out making it sound natural and fluent.

My $.02

 

[Talon]

I would say either one is acceptable. That's the benefit of the English language. It's very flexible regarding the vocabulary and sentence structures.

1 sounds like something a foreigner speaking English would say, the way it's not wrong but doesn't seem the most natural way of posing the sentence. 2 is more like something that would come from someone who had not thought about the sentence too much and had just spouted it out making it sound natural and fluent.

My $.02

I'd agree with this. 👍

Either one sounds correct to me, but the first one sounds more like something out of a textbook rather than what someone would actually say.

 

[dylansan]

There's also "completing tasks" which sounds much better to me in all cases.

 

[Techy]

I would say either one is acceptable. That's the benefit of the English language. It's very flexible regarding the vocabulary and sentence structures.

1 sounds like something a foreigner speaking English would say, the way it's not wrong but doesn't seem the most natural way of posing the sentence. 2 is more like something that would come from someone who had not thought about the sentence too much and had just spouted it out making it sound natural and fluent.

My $.02

Thanks Shem!

And that is a bit better than the other two, Dylansan. Thanks for pointing it out

@ Omnis

Elaborate please?