Grammar fix
end up
finally be in a situation
to reach a place or situation after a series of events, often without planning to.
phrasal verbB1core
Hear it in context
Notice where the phrase sounds natural.
- We took a wrong turn and ended up at the beach instead of the museum.daily life
- I planned to study engineering, but I ended up choosing psychology because I found it more interesting.IELTS speaking
Fix the pattern
Pattern: end up + (verb-ing) / end up + preposition + noun
WrongI ended up to run the meeting.
RightI ended up running the meeting.
'End up' takes -ing (or a place/adjective), never a to-infinitive.
Patternend up + (verb-ing) / end up + preposition + noun
Use it right
Choose the version that sounds natural in speech.
'End up' captures an unplanned outcome in two words. 'Eventually arrived in a situation of' is clumsy and unnatural.
Build natural chunks
Words that usually travel with it.
end up + outcomedoing somethingsomewherein troublealone
Don't confuse it
Do not confuse with 'finish', which means to complete something, not to arrive at an unexpected result.