Eat Sleep Dreamers welcome back to another with me Tom. today we are getting deep with
grammar. We are looking at the difference between just, already, yet and still. How
do you use them? We are about to find out.
Hello and welcome to Eat Sleep Dream English. If you haven't met me before my name is Tom
and I teach fresh modern British English so that you can take your English to the next
level and achieve your life goals whatever they may be whether it's to get that new job,
whether it's to pass that exam, I'm here to help. Now today we're looking at four words
that are commonly misused or confused and we're going to look at how to use them and
when to use them. This is going to be super useful so let's dive in right now. The first
thing to know is that in British English we use all four of these words with the present
perfect tense. While we use these words with the present perfect we do use them in other
situations, other times, other phrases and we're going to look at a few of those as well.
Let's take the word yet. So we use this word to talk about something that hasn't happened
but maybe we expect it to happen in the future. You will mostly find yet in negative sentences
and also in questions. For example 'Have you called your Grandmother yet?' So as you can
see present perfect 'have you called' and then your Grandmother yet. So maybe it hasn't
happened yet but it's expected to happen in the future. It's also used as a response to
a question. So for example 'Has the post arrived?' 'Not yet'. So up until now it hasn't arrived
but in the future hopefully it will arrive. So has the post arrived? Not yet. Interestingly
you can use yet in the positive, in the affirmative but it changes the meaning slightly. So for
example 'has the post arrived?' You might say 'The post has yet to arrive.' This means
that it still hasn't arrived. So now the meaning of yet is more like still. This is quite a
formal structure certainly in spoken English it sounds very formal and you'd find it more
in written English but if you were at a party and you said 'The guests have yet to arrive'
you are saying the guests still haven't arrived. Interesting structure. We use still to talk
about a situation that is unchanged, that is continuing maybe surprisingly. For example
'Are Chris and Dave still dating?' So you are asking there are they continuing to date
'are they still dating?'. Another example 'What's it like outside? Is it still raining?'
As you can see still there giving us that sense of continuing, is it still this situation?
Is it still continuing to be this situation? Let's look at just. Just talks about a very
recent action. 'I've just been to see Dan in hospital.' So I have just been to see Dan
in hospital. So very recently I visited Dan and now I'm telling you about it. So a very
recent action 'I've just visited Dan'. 'We've just seen the news' again we very recently
saw some news so i would say 'We've just seen the news'. There are lots of phrases with
just so like you could use just now for example to show just how close to this moment now
something happened. So maybe it was a couple of seconds ago or a minute ago. So 'I saw
Dave just now'. Literally a couple of seconds ago. 'My sister called just after you'. So
there just after you again the just is showing just how close exactly to that moment it was.
It wasn't a long time after, it was a very short time after. So just after you. Finally
let's look at already. We use this word to talk about something that has happened in
the past before this moment and sometimes with surprise. So for example 'Have you seen
the new Star Wars film?' 'Yeah I've seen it already.' That means that before speaking
you watched the film and so now you can say well yeah 'I've seen it already'. It's happened,
I've done it. 'have you eaten yet?' 'Yeah, I've already eaten.' So again a past action
that is complete, you've done it so you would say 'I've eaten already.' Or I've already
eaten. Now the position of already can go in the middle of the phrase or it could go
at the end. We usually put it in the middle position of the sentence so 'I've already
eaten'. However maybe if you want to emphasise something you might put it at the end of the
sentence so 'I've eaten already'. You just want to emphasise that you did this action.
Another example 'You are here already!' You want to emphasise that they have arrived and
maybe you are a bit surprised so yeah 'you are here already.' Not a great thing to say
to a party guest but yeah anyway. So this is a great word to know and very useful when
you are using the present perfect. Shall we do a little quiz? I think that would be a
good idea. I know how much you guys have enjoyed previous quizzes in other videos. So I'm going
to give you some sentences and I want you to choose the correct word to fit in to the sentence. Good luck!
How was that guys? How many did you get correct? Let me know in the comments below of course.
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