She tends to arrive early for meetings.

[Kumarc]

She tends to arrive early for office meetings.
She usually arrives office meetings early.

Can we use "tend" in this context? What is the difference between them?

 

[emsr2d2]

1. She tends to arrive early for office meetings.
2. She usually arrives at office meetings early.

Can we use "tend" in this context? What is the difference between them?

Whenever you give us more than one sentence to look at, please number them as shown above. It makes it easier for us to refer to them in our responses.

You can use "tends to". I might say that it expresses slightly less regularity than "usually" but there's no clear delineation.

Out of curiosity, why did you change the word order in sentence 2. If you're asking only about the difference between "tends to" and "usually", try to keep the rest of the sentence the same. This is what I would expect:

1. She tends to arrive early for office meetings.
2. She usually arrives early for office meetings.