{"id":72026,"date":"2019-09-13T05:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72026"},"modified":"2019-09-13T05:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:52:03","slug":"still-yet-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/still-yet-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Still, Yet, Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Still<\/strong> is used to talk about an action or situation that has not finished.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is <strong>still<\/strong> working.<\/li>\n<li>The baby is<strong> still<\/strong> asleep.<\/li>\n<li>We are <strong>still<\/strong> waiting for his reply.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>still<\/strong> raining.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Yet<\/h3>\n<p>Yet is used to talk about something which has not happened \u2013 it is expected to happen in the future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Is Jane here?\u2019 \u2018Not yet\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>He hasn\u2019t come yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In questions yet can be used to ask whether something expected has happened.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have they arrived <strong>yet?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Is supper ready <strong>yet?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Yet<\/strong> is occasionally used in affirmative sentences. In that case it has a similar meaning to still.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have <strong>yet<\/strong> to receive that parcel. (= We are still waiting to receive that parcel.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Already<\/h3>\n<p>Already is used to say that something has happened sooner than expected.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have <strong>already<\/strong> finished.<\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>already<\/strong> arrived.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018When is she going to come?\u2019 \u2018She is <strong>already<\/strong> here.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In British English, <strong><em>already and yet<\/em><\/strong> are commonly used with perfect tenses. In American English, past tenses are often preferred.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She has <strong>already<\/strong> arrived. (GB)<\/li>\n<li>She <strong>already<\/strong> arrived. (US)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still is used to talk about an action or situation that has not finished. She is still working. The baby is still asleep. We are still waiting for his reply. It is still raining.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1165,1167,1166,1163,1164],"class_list":["post-72026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-already","tag-already-or-still","tag-already-or-yet","tag-still","tag-yet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72027,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72026\/revisions\/72027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}