{"id":73615,"date":"2020-03-31T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73615"},"modified":"2020-03-31T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:57:18","slug":"yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet has several uses.<\/p>\n<p><b>Yet<\/b>\u00a0can mean \u2018in addition\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That was\u00a0<b>yet<\/b>\u00a0another cause for trouble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Yet<\/b>\u00a0can mean \u2018up to this time\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has the postman come<b>\u00a0yet<\/b>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Yet<\/b>\u00a0can mean \u2018at some time in the future\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The prophet said that there were more dangers\u00a0<b>yet<\/b>\u00a0to come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Yet<\/b>\u00a0can mean \u2018ever\u2019, \u2018still\u2019 or \u2018again\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The boy has grown\u00a0<b>yet<\/b>\u00a0taller.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a\u00a0conjunction,\u00a0<b>yet<\/b>\u00a0means \u2018nevertheless\u2019. Its meaning is similar to\u00a0<b>but<\/b>, but it seems to carry an element of distinctiveness that\u00a0<b>but<\/b>\u00a0doesn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was in great pain,<b>\u00a0yet<\/b>\u00a0he played on.<\/li>\n<li>John plays the violin well,\u00a0<b>yet<\/b>\u00a0his favorite instrument is the piano.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In sentences such as the first one, above, the\u00a0pronoun subject of the second clause is often left out. When that happens,\u00a0the comma separating the two clauses\u00a0might also disappear.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was in great pain\u00a0<b>yet<\/b>\u00a0he played on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Yet<\/b>\u00a0can be used together with other conjunctions,\u00a0<b>but<\/b>\u00a0or<b>\u00a0and<\/b>. This usage is quite acceptable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was in great pain\u00a0<b>and yet<\/b>\u00a0he played on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet has several uses. Yet\u00a0can mean \u2018in addition\u2019. That was\u00a0yet\u00a0another cause for trouble. Yet\u00a0can mean \u2018up to this time\u2019. Has the postman come\u00a0yet? Yet\u00a0can mean \u2018at some time in the future\u2019. The prophet said&#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":[251],"tags":[2408,1164,2409],"class_list":["post-73615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-using-grammar","tag-yet","tag-yet-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73615","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=73615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73616,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73615\/revisions\/73616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}