TENSE TUESDAY: PRESENT PERFECT WITH 'YET' ZIGGURAT BLOG
05 / 04 / 2016
TENSE TUESDAY: PRESENT PERFECT WITH 'YET' ZIGGURAT BLOG: meaning and examples
Welcome to Tense Tuesday, everyone!
Today we are looking at a Ziggurat Blog post from February titled Mistakes are Good for You. It's an excellent article about how to learn from your mistakes. In this post, Jenny used a sentence that is an excellent example of how to use the word YET with the Present Perfect.
Sentence: An adult is much more likely to say, 'I can't' rather than, 'I haven't learned that yet."
We use PRESENT PERFECT YET when we talk about things we have not done, but plan to do soon.
Example 1: I haven't finished yet. I should be finished by 10:00.
Example 2: She hasn't met his parents yet.
Notice how we use the negative in these sentences. Also notice that we can place YET after the past participle, or we can place it at the end of the clause. If we put it after the past participle, in the middle of the clause, it sounds a bit more formal.
Example 1 (bis): I haven't yet finished. I should be finished by 10:00.
With a question, we do not have to use the negative, but using it changes the tone of the sentence slightly.
Example 3: Have you been to that new restaurant yet?
Example 4: Hasn't she bought her tickets yet?
In example 3 the speaker expects the person to eventually do the action, or to plan on doing the action soon, whereas in example 4 the speaker is surprised that she still hasn't bought her tickets. From the speaker's point of view, she should have bought the tickets by now.
We looked at some uses of YET in October of 2005. If you haven't read them YET, click on the link below to learn some more ways to use this adverb:
https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?rs=yet
And click on the next link to read Jenny's informative article about using mistakes to help improve your language skills.
https://zigguratenglish.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/mistakes-are-good-for-you/
That's all for today. As always, thank you for reading!
Today we are looking at a Ziggurat Blog post from February titled Mistakes are Good for You. It's an excellent article about how to learn from your mistakes. In this post, Jenny used a sentence that is an excellent example of how to use the word YET with the Present Perfect.
Sentence: An adult is much more likely to say, 'I can't' rather than, 'I haven't learned that yet."
We use PRESENT PERFECT YET when we talk about things we have not done, but plan to do soon.
Example 1: I haven't finished yet. I should be finished by 10:00.
Example 2: She hasn't met his parents yet.
Notice how we use the negative in these sentences. Also notice that we can place YET after the past participle, or we can place it at the end of the clause. If we put it after the past participle, in the middle of the clause, it sounds a bit more formal.
Example 1 (bis): I haven't yet finished. I should be finished by 10:00.
With a question, we do not have to use the negative, but using it changes the tone of the sentence slightly.
Example 3: Have you been to that new restaurant yet?
Example 4: Hasn't she bought her tickets yet?
In example 3 the speaker expects the person to eventually do the action, or to plan on doing the action soon, whereas in example 4 the speaker is surprised that she still hasn't bought her tickets. From the speaker's point of view, she should have bought the tickets by now.
We looked at some uses of YET in October of 2005. If you haven't read them YET, click on the link below to learn some more ways to use this adverb:
https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?rs=yet
And click on the next link to read Jenny's informative article about using mistakes to help improve your language skills.
https://zigguratenglish.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/mistakes-are-good-for-you/
That's all for today. As always, thank you for reading!
