Began vs. Beginning — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Began and Beginning
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Began
Past tense of begin.
Beginning
The point in time or space at which something begins
They had reached the beginning of the wood
He left at the beginning of February
Began
(obsolete) begin
Beginning
The act or process of bringing or being brought into being; a start
The beginning of the universe.
Beginning
The time when something begins or is begun
The beginning of June.
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Beginning
The place where something begins or is begun
At the beginning of the road.
Beginning
The first part
The front matter is at the beginning of the book.
Beginning
Often beginnings An early stage or phase
The beginnings of human life on this planet.
Beginning
The source or cause
What was the beginning of the dispute?.
Beginning
(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
Beginning
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Beginning
That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
What was the beginning of the dispute?
Beginning
The initial portion of some extended thing.
The author describes the main character's youth at the beginning of the story.
That house is at the beginning of the street.
Beginning
Present participle of begin
He is beginning to read a new book.
Beginning
(informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
In the beginning paragraph of the chapter
In the beginning section of the course
Beginning
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Beginning
That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
I am . . . the beginning and the ending.
Beginning
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Beginning
Enterprise.
Beginning
The event consisting of the start of something;
The beginning of the war
Beginning
The time at which something is supposed to begin;
They got an early start
She knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
The middle of the war
Rain during the middle of April
Beginning
The first part or section of something;
`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story
A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end
Beginning
The place where something begins, where it springs into being;
The Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
Communism's Russian root
Beginning
The act of starting something;
He was responsible for the beginning of negotiations
Beginning
Serving to begin;
The beginning canto of the poem
The first verse
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