consider the
vector space 
, let

, then

is a
spanning set of

and

is a
finitely spanned set

because the third vector is the sum of the first two which makes it a linear combination of them
which means the first set is a spanning set but the second isnt

is spanned by the set

:


is spanned by the following

vectors:


is the space of polynomials over the field

with a single polynomial


isnt finitely spanned, to prove this, we assume in contradiction that the set

spans

a linear combination of polynomials cant give us a degree that is higher than the degree of the polynomial with the highest degree in said linear combination, we write:

let

be the polynomial with the highest degree,

, we know

by necessity because

contains all the polynomials over the field


let

be a vector space over the field

, and let

be sets of vectors, then

if

is finitely spanned, if

then

is finitely spanned too