How to use "yet" "already" and "still' in English - Learn English Grammar

history my name is alicia and in this week's live lesson we are going to talk about how to use yet already and still this lesson is going to focus on use of present perfect patterns so we're going to use those a lot throughout the lesson but i'm also going to talk about some other grammar patterns that we use this word or we use these words with so i hope that you can get some good practice today as you joined please please please make sure to hit the like button and of course share this video so that other people can find today's lesson that would be super super cool so while we wait a couple of super quick announcements the first one is about this banner at the bottom of the screen this test your level now banner if you want to check your english level if you want to take our assessment test to find out what level you are and what lessons to take you should check the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video on facebook you'll find this page here so if you 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today's lesson but i hope it's helpful so as you join please make sure if you haven't already to hit the like button and share this video so others can find today's lesson okay let's get started with yet yet okay yet first let's talk about this uh use with perfect tense structures okay with perfect structures so just yet to express an action or a condition that has not happened but that we expect to happen so the key with yet is there's some expectation we think that thing or that condition is going to happen but it has not happened we use yet when we want to express this so here's a basic pattern we can use to create a yet sentence we have subject plus hasn't or haven't so no the negative form not has or have but has not and have not right so subject hasn't past participle verb yet or subject haven't past participle verb yet okay so note we use the negative form here has not and have not are reduced to hasn't and haven't so let's look at some example sentences that use yet in this way you can send some in the chat i'll try to check yours live so first example we're going to see these uh in today's lesson these three sentences a lot okay so i haven't eaten lunch yet i haven't eaten lunch yet so let's break this down so i is our subject haven't is right here my negative have not for this structure and then eaten is my past participle verb in this case eaten lunch what did i eat or not eat and yet at the end of the sentence so this shows we have an expectation there's some expectation we're going to eat lunch but it didn't happen or it has not happened so this sentence i haven't eaten lunch is 100 correct i haven't eaten lunch the difference is this sentence i haven't eaten lunch sounds like a simple fact right we're just reporting information i haven't eaten lunch yet sounds like i'm planning to or there's some expectation okay let's go to the next one then he hasn't finished his homework yet he hasn't finished his homework yet so this sentence uses a he subject he hasn't he hasn't and here our verb is finished he hasn't finished his homework yet he hasn't finished his homework yet so again we are expressing an expectation this sentence is also correct he hasn't finished his homework but when we use yet it expresses the expectation so maybe if you're this person's teacher or their mother father or whatever he hasn't finished his homework yet we're expecting something okay some examples riddy singh writes i haven't yet eaten lunch correct or not good point yeah sometimes you may see yet before the verb like i haven't yet eaten lunch this sounds at least in today's american english that's this tends to sound a little bit old-fashioned or it might sound a little more formal so if someone prefers to have a more formal speaking style they might use yet in this position generally we use it at the end of the sentence here okay all right christopher uh on facebook says is yet a conjunction yeah we're going to talk about it down here too okay all right so let's continue to the next one they haven't arrived yet they haven't arrived yet all right so again my subject they haven't my negative form and my verb is arrived with yet okay so the key with yet in this use is it expresses expectation right we think that something is going to happen or we expect that something will be true okay so let's now let's move to the second part with this one about using yet as a coordinating conjunction a coordinating conjunction this sounds scary but a coordinating conjunction means a word we use to connect two sentences yeah for example and or but or or those words are coordinating conjunctions and yet is also a coordinating conjunction so we use yet to connect our sentences to connect two ideas and the meaning in this case is although or despite that okay so how do you know it's a coordinating conjunction when you see yet in the middle like between two ideas between two sentences it's probably a coordinating conjunction okay so for example she hasn't answered the phone all day yet she's in the office she hasn't answered the phone all day yet she's in the office so this is like saying she hasn't answered the phone all day although she's in the office so in this case we're showing like hmm i know this is true why isn't that true so we use yet to have this feeling this meaning all right cool okay some other examples we haven't finished our class yet okay i haven't brushed muhajir as easy on facebook i haven't brushed past participle verb yeah my teeth yet okay hello i haven't written in french yet okay uh someone christopher wrote they haven't ate yet h is the simple past form you need to use the past participle verb yeah i haven't eaten so eat becomes eaten not eight in this grammar pattern okay cool all right so let's uh end part one there with yet yet that's a lot okay uh let's move on to part two for today we'll take a super quick break and then go to part two if you missed it earlier there is a level check in the description test 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happen so like with yet the expectation is really important here so we're expressing that feeling we thought something was going to happen so we had an idea but with already the action happened it's finished or it started already all right okay so let's move on to the pattern for this one so we have the subject again here we're going to use the positive has and have when we use yet we use the negative right hasn't and haven't okay so subject has already passed participle verb subject has already passed participle verb or subject have i have already past participle verb so again we're not using simple past tense here we're using past participle verb here okay okay all right i'm looking for your stuff all right okay i'm looking for your questions i'm checking your questions live let's go to the examples with already them so first one so these are the same examples from part one we're just changing the keyword so i have already eaten lunch i have already eaten lunch so again we have our subject our auxiliary verb here have or our helping verb i have and then already in this position plus our past participle verb right here i have already eaten lunch okay another one he has already finished his homework he has already finished his homework and finally they have already arrived they have already arrived so again we're using the positive form of these has and have words and already comes before the verb in this pattern okay some examples are coming evelyn says i have already sent you the link nice okay um nick nick says i have already eaten my breakfast yet i forgot to make coffee oh no coffee is very important okay um other examples he has already eaten all his food excellent eric cd alright cool that looks good so already looks pretty clear nice everybody uh alicia can i use yet before the past participle verb as a question more formal can you give me an example before the verb as a question i'm not sure what you mean okay let's go to uh the next couple points here we use already sometimes as a response in a conversation so we use it as a one word response to show surprise or to show shock i have that here can use as a response to show surprise okay for example in a conversation with teens mr a and mr b so first person says i finished my holiday shopping i finished my holiday shopping second person says already it's november already it's november so this already shows that we're surprised or shocked this person finished holiday shopping sooner than expected like it seems very very fast this person says it's november you finished already so there was some expectation of holiday shopping but if it happens very quickly you can use already to do that another example might be someone in your office or your school says hey i already or maybe like i went for lunch um with my friends an hour ago you might say already it's only 10. so when something happens earlier than expected you can use already to show your surprise okie dokie uh good examples of already are coming in i have already seen that riddy says i'm already told him about not i am not i am i have already told him i have already told him so make sure if you are making these sentences for the first time follow this pattern yeah this should be i we you they have has already and ver yeah so just follow the pattern what's your youtube channel says friendly english class 101 look it up same as the facebook page okay all right let's go to the last point here the last point uh already maybe used at the end of a sentence you may hear some people use it in this position for example i have eaten lunch already you may hear this as well we tend to use it in this one i have already eaten lunch he's already finished this homework and as i just did native speed tends to kind of smush those letters together so not already but i've already eaten lunch this sentence becomes i've already eaten lunch already already i have already eaten lunch so the pronunciation becomes a lot shorter i've already eaten lunch that's how we would say it okay cool some more examples are coming in i have already signed a contract says test king okay tarek says i have already seen this movie good uh hugo says i have already finished my workout good um i already had dinner okay that works for me karina nice okay uh i have already eaten breakfast today good okay lots of people are talking about food perfect examples good job everybody okay let's go to the last part facebook i'm looking for you uh some of you are writing some unrelated comments i have already eaten lunch eliza i have already eaten lunch many people i think are missing this part i've seen this error a few times they're not i am but i have i have already okay all right phew let's take one more quick break and then we'll go to still our last point for today's lesson if you are just joining live today's lesson is about how to use yet already and still we are focusing on using perfect tense grammar structures in this lesson but we are talking about a couple other points here and there too okay let's go to our super quick break and then we'll go to the last part so if you missed it earlier the team put together a level check test that you can find from the link below the video uh if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook so click that link and you will go to englishclass101.com and you will find the level check page you need your name and an email address to take the test it's free and then you can find the recommended courses the english courses from our lesson library so check that out if you want to check your level okay cool let's go two the final topic for today the final topic all right uh please don't spam the facebook chat fred fredly i told you the youtube channel it's the same as the facebook page all right let's go to the last part still still so let's talk about still still expresses a continuing action or state a continuing action or state and it's unexpected so it's like a surprise or something that's shocking or we're kind of like what i'm confused maybe too okay so we can use still with many grammar patterns there are lots of different grammar patterns we use still with today we're going to practice this perfect tense pattern and then we'll look at a few other grammar patterns too okay so let's look at this one first and then i will continue on so to make a perfect tense uh sentence with this we use subject plus still plus negative here hasn't or haven't plus our past participle verb okay so again just like with yet at the beginning of the lesson we need to use the negative form here notice too this part still comes before these uh have and hasn't haven't hasn't sections right so this position is different right let's take a look at some examples and see how we do this all right so i still haven't eaten lunch i still haven't eaten lunch so here's my subject right here still in this position after the subject haven't follows and eaten lunch the past participle verb form all right i still haven't eaten lunch so what does this communicate this communicates we have some expectation well rather there's there's an expectation we're going to eat lunch but it hasn't happened yet and we are surprised so for example maybe i say this at like 3 p.m three in the afternoon i still haven't eaten lunch that expresses the action hasn't continued or my state of not eating lunch is continuing like oh no so we expect this action should happen but it's been too long that's the feeling so me not eating lunch has continued and i'm surprised i still haven't eaten lunch okay let's look at another one so he still hasn't finished his homework he still hasn't finished his homework so here's my subject he plus still in the next position negative hasn't he still hasn't finished past participle verb his homework he still hasn't finished his homework so we expect by now his homework should be done but it's not so we're expressing like the continuing state of not being finished it might be kind of an odd way to think of it or we could just imagine it as like we expect this thing should be done by now but it is not he still hasn't finished his homework okay some examples are coming in marine life says i still haven't eaten breakfast oh no okay olivia says she still hasn't told me her secret ooh that's a good example sentence okay uh yeah mean says we still haven't identified thief nice ones everybody okay al tariq says i still have not had a break good uh other examples i still haven't finished my work okay good good good good everybody's examples are super okay uh oh one more so they still haven't arrived they still haven't arrived one more example so these are examples that use these perfect tense patterns yeah let's finish today's lesson let's look at some other grammar patterns we use still with so the first one you're still working it's 9 p.m you're still working it's 9 p.m so here we have still directly before this verb yeah so you are is what this means you are still working question mark exclamation point so we're expressing a surprise it's 9 p.m it's 9 00 at night so this expresses surprise or shock you're not finished yet that's how we use still in a sentence like this let's look at another example he didn't study for the test but he still passed he didn't study for the test but he still passed so this expresses our surprise yeah he didn't study for the test right he didn't study for the test but even though that's true he passed so this is another kind of grammar pattern another use of still alright and one more we knew the dessert wasn't healthy but we still ate it we knew the dessert wasn't healthy but we still ate it so again this still before the verb expresses that like that even though feeling right so these are some other uses of still and you'll notice these come before the verb in simple past tense we still ate it it's like saying even though we knew this we ate it right it's the even though feeling okay so again we can use still with other grammar patterns but i wanted to practice it uh with the perfect tense structures for today's lesson to compare uh with yet and already okay uh some other examples are coming in andre says i'm still working at this time okay uh alaratam says i still feel unhealthy okay on hualim says can we play still at the end of the sentence uh as in like here like they haven't arrived still we wouldn't put that in flick in writing for example if i were writing a text message to someone i wouldn't put it at the end here but in speech you might hear someone add still after they say something like because they want to express that surprise or that unexpected thing for example in this case like you're waiting at the airport maybe you might think ah they haven't arrived still so you might hear it like that in speech like like after the sentence the speaker wants to add that feeling of shock so you might hear it in that way but if you're writing something uh we wouldn't use it in that way so i hope that that helps you interesting question okay phew that's it so we have talked about yet already and still today that was super super fun uh so i'll finish up for today's lesson oh my gosh time has run out very quickly if you want to take a picture of today's lesson boards get ready here you go okay so today we talked about using yet and already and still so the focus grammar for today was again present perfect tense uh but we can use these words in other grammar patterns as well okay cool so i'll finish up for today's lesson uh there uh next week's lesson information let's take a look next week i'll be back as always next week come on next week okay next week next week's lesson will be november 10th wednesday november 10th at 10 p.m eastern standard time that is new york city time if you don't know your local time please google it or set a notification on our youtube channel or our facebook page or if you follow me on instagram i always post a link and a topic reminder in my story so you can check that out too next week i'm going to focus on some prepositions yay next week i'm going to talk about how to use by two and four great right don't we love preposition practice so join me next week to focus on these three prepositions all right cool so that is it for this week thanks so much for joining me thank you for sharing your awesome example sentences and your great questions as always i appreciate that and thanks so much for liking and sharing the video too that's super cool if you want to check your level make sure to check the link below the video uh or above the video on facebook uh and if you want to send me your questions send them to me at englishclass101.com ask hyphen alicia you can also find my social media links from the youtube description too all right cool so i will say goodbye for this week so have a great day have a great night have a great weekend and i will see you again

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