Already VS Still VS Yet Use vocabulary fluently
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm did you already do it are
you still doing it or have you not done
it yet let’s talk about it in the last
couple weeks i had a couple students ask
me which one should i use already still
yet which one’s correct and because a
couple people asked me i thought hey
this is a great topic to share with
everyone so i want to help you today to
start to understand how to use already
still and yet i think the easiest way to
think about these three words is by
imagining a timeline first we have the
past then the present and then the
future so let’s start with the past we
use already in the past still in the
present and yet in the future let’s
focus on already let’s imagine that your
friend calls you and says hey do you
want to eat dinner you might say oh i’m
sorry i already ate dinner this is
something that you did in the past i
already ate dinner it’s finished now i
already studied english today so i’m
tired i need to give my brain a break or
i already watched TV for three hours so
now i need to go out and move and
exercise i already sat for a long time
this is something in the past let’s move
to talk about the present the word still
still so for example your friend is
calling you again your friend loves to
call you and she says hey why aren’t you
at my house you said that you would be
here at eleven o’clock you might say oh
i’m sorry i’m still getting ready at the
moment you are getting ready maybe
you’re changing your clothes or you’re
taking care of the house at the moment
you’re doing something i’m still getting
ready and that’s why we often use the
word still
with ing still getting ready I’m still
working I’m still speaking English
that’s great I’m still doing something
at the moment now let’s go to the future
Wow let’s go to the future it’s awesome
let’s talk about the word yet yet so we
use yet for example in this situation
your friend is calling you again
turn off your phone your friend calls
too much your friend is calling you
again and says hey why aren’t you at my
house it’s 11 o’clock you might say I
haven’t gotten in the car yet because
you used the word yet it means that you
probably will do this in the future but
at the moment you haven’t done it yet so
here’s another example maybe your
teacher says hey did you watch that
video that I sent you for our lesson and
you might say oh I haven’t watched it
yet but don’t worry I’ll watch it before
our next lesson it means you’re gonna do
it in the future but at the moment you
haven’t done it so there’s an
expectation that you will do it in the
future and I want to let you know we use
this in a negative way I haven’t done
something yet I haven’t eaten dinner yet
I haven’t gone to the store yet there’s
an expectation that it’s gonna happen in
the future so now I have a challenge for
you are you ready I want you to write
three sentences in the comments below
one of them using already one of them
with still and one of them with yet I
hope that you can fully understand this
idea and when you read each other’s
comments in each other’s sentences you
can more fully get the context of these
expressions I hope this video today was
useful for you and if it was come back
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