welcome to the lesson my name is Michelle and in this lesson we are looking at the differences
between words still already and yet what are the differences between their meanings do
they mean the same thing no they don't they have very different meanings join me in this
lesson to learn the differences so first of all we are going to look at the words still
before we get on to the sentences let's find out what does still mean so still means that
we are talking about something that has continued up till the present okay so maybe something
started in the past and it has continued until the present so something that continues to
the present
okay so what is it that has continued to the present let's find out by reading the first
sentence he still hasn't said sorry okay so maybe there's this person who committed a
mistake and not the person was expecting him or her to say sorry for a very long time but
since the moment they were expecting that person to say sorry until now that person
has not yet said sorry so this is when you could use he still hasn't said sorry so they
started to expect it in the future and the person has not yet done it so as I told you
that it's used for something that started in the past and continues until the present
now let's see how to use it in a sentence all right what's the correct place of this
word he still hasn't said sorry all right so where is the verb in the sentence the main
verb of the sentences hasn't alright it's the main verb and still always comes before
the main work okay so still would always come before the main verb it would be absolutely
wrong to say he hasn't still said sorry okay that wouldn't be the right sentence so make
sure that you put the still before the main verb in the sentence okay now let's look at
the next sentence that we have they were still living in London okay now here's that's the
confusion so the main verb in the sentences living but we have another verb in the sentence
which is the helping verb and that is were okay this is the helping verb and we also
call it the auxiliary verb it's a form of is was were okay a form of B right so here
we say they were still living in London so just like the previous sentence okay still
comes before the main verb here before the main work but it comes after the helping work
so if there is no helping verb in the sentence you don't need to be confused and you can
simply say he still hasn't said sorry however if there is a helping verb in the sentence
then it will be between the helping verb and the middle Warp main verb which would be they
were still living in London all right now let's look at a third example that we have
got and that is she lives with her mother still so now here we have changed the position
of still entirely okay it has no relationship with the main verb which is lives rather this
word comes at the end of the sentence so is it incorrect no it's not incorrect you can
use this formation but it's just that this is very informal and you would not find this
formation very often while you're reading or listening to someone so this is very formal
and not commonly used
right now let's look at the next word that we have for the day and that is yet hmm so
I haven't read the document yet before we get on to the usage will again find out the
meaning of the word yet so yet is used when something has not happened up to the present
all right when something has not happened
up to the present okay so we were expecting something to happen but it has not happened
yet all right so where do we use yet do we use it in positive sentences affirmative or
normal sentences mm-hmm as you can notice that we have not in the meaning itself therefore
even when we use it we use it mostly in negative sentences because we are talking about something
that has not happened so let's read the first one I haven't read the document yet all right
so here we are using it in the end okay and we are also using it in a negative sentence
which means that till now something has not been done okay so you always use it in a negative
sentence for something that has not yet happened you're
still waiting when will it happen when will it happen and as you've seen you can see it
in all the four sentences except the last one we'll come to that later we generally
use yet at the end of a sentence so be it a normal sentence okay which is a positive
sorry a full-stop we have a full-stop so it's a normal sentence but here we have a question
mark right so whether it's a question or an answer we always have yet at the end of a
sentence now let's look at the next one that we have this is a question is the doctor here
yet so here we are using yet to ask a question this is another usage of yet we often ask
it for a question
and this is the simple tense story simple present tense so you can use it for the simple
present tense if we climb back to the previous sentence we see that this end sentences in
the present perfect I haven't read the document yet so this isn't the present perfect sentence
so you'll often hear British us say it like this but Americans don't really love have
so they generally remove it okay and they use the simple past instead they'd say I didn't
read the document yet which means the same thing so if you hear an American they'll say
I didn't read the document yet but the statement always remains negative because we are talking
about something that has not happened so far the third one that we have is have you done
your homework yet okay now this is another way of asking a question but in the present
perfect so as I told you a Britisher would ask you
have you done your homework yet but what would an American ask you he would use the simple
past to ask you the same question he'd say did you do your homework yet okay so did you
do your homework yet in the present a past simple tense with yet at the end of the question
now coming back to the last one he hasn't yet received the document right so the difference
here is that we do not use yet at the end of the sentence but we use it here right after
the right before the main verb hmm so this kind of formation is also very unusual and
very formal just like this one she lives with her mother still the same way he hasn't yet
received the document is very formal and you would possibly hear a higher authority saying
that to you as the sentence also says the question so he hasn't received the document
he hasn't yet received a document which is very formal okay now we come over to the next
one that we have for the day and that is already so what is the meaning of already can we use
already in place of yet mm-hmm we use yet when something has not happened until the
present time but we use already when something has happened in the present before the expected
time so you were expecting something to happen but it happened before the expected time so
when something happens before the expected time
or when something happens before present so you can see I have already seen that movie
okay now as far as the usage is concerned already is a combination of still and yet
okay as we use still before the main verb in a positive sentence the same way we use
already before the main verb in a positive sentence before the main verb and have is
the helping verb here okay the next one that we have is have you finished your homework
or have you finished your work already now this is a question alright and this is going
to be very different from the first one because here we do not have already in the middle
of the sentence but rather we have already in the end of a sentence so we have already
at the end of the question
so as you can see we put already in the middle of a sentence but at the end of a question
and already means that something has happened before present or before the expected time
as you can read it I have already seen that movie so maybe you are talking to your friend
who wants to go to see a movie okay they want to go for a movie with you and they suggest
a movie which you say okay now I've already seen that movie let's see another one which
means that you have seen the movie before the moment of speaking okay so here we have
covered all the three still yet and already we know how to use them and we also know their
meaning so what are you waiting for use them and I hope that all the confusion is solved
for you thank you so much for staying with me bye bye