English Grammar - ALREADY & YET

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Hi, my name is Alex, and welcome to this lesson on using the words "already" and "yet".
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Now, these are both time-related words, and we use them when we want to talk about if
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something has happened before now, or if something hasn't happened before now, so before the
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present.
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Okay?
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So, for example, the question I have here is, "Are you going to take your medicine?"
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If you have not taken your medicine before now, you would use "yet".
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Perhaps you intend to take it, so "I haven't taken it yet", meaning that you have the intention
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of taking it in the future, but before now, you haven't taken it.
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If you have taken it before now, you would use "already".
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So, you would say, well, if you're asked the question again, "Are you going to take your
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medicine?"
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and you have taken it before now, "I have already taken it."
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Okay, now there are a couple of things that I want to point out.
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Just keep in mind that when you are using "yet", you're going to put "have not" plus
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the past participle of the verb that you're using.
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So again, past participle of "take" is "taken".
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I have not taken it yet, versus when you're using "already", you just have "have", stick
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"already" between the past participle and "have".
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I have already taken it.
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Okay.
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Now, "already" and "yet" also have some functions when asking questions.
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For example, if you want to find out, again, if something has happened before now, you
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would use "yet".
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Have you cleaned your room yet?
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Is it done?
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Is it done?
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Versus "already", you can use "already" to express surprise, depending on how you ask
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the question.
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So, if you're surprised that your friend Dana has completed her homework extremely quickly,
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you would say, "Has Dana already finished her homework?"
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So you can use it to express surprise with the question.
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It's more so of a statement than an actual question at that point.
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Okay.
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I also wanted to point out one more thing with using "already" and "yet", and that is
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the placement of "already" and "yet" in the phrase.
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You can actually have it either between "have", well, in the case of "yet", you would have
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it between "have not" and the past participle, as opposed to "already" where you would have
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it just between "have" and the past participle, or at the very end of the sentence.
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So, for example, you can say, "I have not yet seen Africa", meaning you have the intention
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of seeing it in the future, possibly.
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You can also say, "I have not seen Africa yet."
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Okay?
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As, if you're using "already" with these sentences, you can say, "I have already seen Africa",
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or you can say, "I have seen Africa already."
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Okay so if you'd like to do a quiz on this lesson just to make sure that you got it perfectly,
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please check out www.engvid.com.
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My name is Alex.
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Take care.
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