Learn English – When a meeting comes to end and you want to conclude from it

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Imagine at a meeting all the participant come to an agreement over something, but there were some other subjects under discussion during the session. The meeting finishes and prior to announcing it, the presenter / meeting leader decides to summarize all the matters and tells and "make a conclusion from all the discussed matters", well. What shall he normally say? Does my sentence bellow make any sense to you:

Let’s conclude from these matters.

If there is a better way, then please let me know about it.

P.S. I need to use the verb "conclude" or the noun "conclusion" in my sentence.

Added: A university professor in my country can use the same sentence before ending the session.

Best Answer

If you check the dictionary, you will find that it isn't really appropriate to use the word conclude in the way that you suggested: it means either to end a speech, meeting, or piece of writing or to judge or decide something after thinking carefully about it: note that, for the second meaning it must be followed by that.

A university professor could say something like this:

Let's conclude this session by summarizing the points that we have discussed

For a meeting where evidence has been presented and then a judgement made, the second meaning could be used like this:

We can conclude from the evidence presented that...

conclusion can mean the final part of something or the opinion you have after considering all the information about something. A university professor could use the first meaning like this:

In conclusion, let's summarize the points that we have discussed

For a meeting where something has been decided, the second meaning could be used like this:

Let's summarize the conclusions that we have reached in this meeting.

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