How to Give Status Updates with yet already and still in English
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how to give updates with yet already
and still the focus grammar for this
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present perfect tense but i am going to
talk about a few
other grammar points uh and we’re going
to practice using these
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updates with
yet already and still how to give
updates
with yet already and still and the focus
grammar will be present
perfect tense okey dokey i
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one by one how to use yet how to use
already
and how to use still so
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uh the first point for today’s lesson is
how to use
yet how to use yet so let’s take a look
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do we use
yet if you joined and
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lesson i talked a little bit
about yet and the focus grammar was
present perfect so we’re going to talk
about this grammar
and this point one more time so let’s
begin
how to use yet what is the deal so in
blue here
we use yet to emphasize
to make the feeling stronger to
emphasize
an incomplete action
or condition that you expect
will be completed so and a very
important point with yet is that
expectation
we expect something is going to happen
or we expect something is going to be
completed
so this is a key i talked about
last week so you can use a sentence with
yet
or without yet but when you want to
communicate
expectation you should use yet to do
that
okay so how do we make a sentence with
yet
we use subject in today’s grammar
hasn’t or haven’t so he hasn’t
or i haven’t depending on your subject
then we use the past participle form of
the verb
and end with yet so let’s look at some
examples and please send me your example
sentences
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okay
first one i haven’t eaten
lunch yet i haven’t eaten lunch yet
so subject is i haven’t
have not so this is the reduced form
have not
becomes haven’t eaten is the past
participle verb form
of eat lunch haven’t eaten lunch it’s
my phrase here and yet is at the end i
haven’t eaten lunch yet
this sentence is also correct i haven’t
eaten lunch
this is just a simple fact i haven’t
eaten lunch
yet communicates expectation
so when you want to show that
expectation you can include
yet at the end of your sentence another
one
he hasn’t returned my call yet he hasn’t
returned my call yet
yes he hasn’t so in this sentence i use
hasn’t because my subject is
he he hasn’t or he
has not returned returned is the past
participle form of return he hasn’t
returned
my call yet he hasn’t returned my call
yet again this sentence is also correct
he hasn’t returned my call
simple fact he hasn’t returned my call
yet
shows i expect a call from him i
expect that great okay
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uh andrew says i haven’t been there yet
good nice okay uh some other examples
i haven’t uh oh some conwell g
i’ve not i’ve not picked up my sister or
i’ve not discussed
i’ve not you can use it but in american
english that sounds a little weird
maybe in british english it sounds a
little bit more
normal sorry audio is low maybe british
english sounds a little bit more normal
but we tend to use
i have not so rather than i’ve
not i’ve not maybe i have not or i
haven’t
uh facebook i don’t see okay there’s one
ruber says i haven’t eaten dinner yet
okay
um lulu says i haven’t spoken to her yet
good good good examples nice examples
okay another one
we haven’t spoken to our clients
yet we haven’t spoken to our clients yet
okay and you haven’t convinced me
yet you haven’t convinced me yet
convinced this word means like to try to
to persuade someone to
get someone to think the same way you do
or to get someone to agree with you or
agree to an
idea you haven’t convinced me
yet you haven’t convinced me yet
okay so i have a note here this note in
blue
as i said uh before it sounds a little
old-fashioned
uh to use yet before the verb
but you might sometimes hear this
so that means sometimes
maybe in movies i suppose you might hear
this
yet right here in this position
so for example i haven’t yet
eaten lunch or he hasn’t yet
returned my call you might hear
yet used in that position but it sounds
a little bit old-fashioned
so at least in american english we don’t
use it
in this position so much you can
but again it sounds a little more
natural to use it
at the end of the sentence okay
hironi writes we haven’t planned two
ends in plan yeah not planed planned
planned our trip yet
juanjo says i haven’t gotten a haircut
yet i haven’t got a haircut yet
okay uh other examples
diallo on facebook i haven’t taken so
the past participle form of take is
taken
yeah i haven’t taken a shower yet
uh yellow all right cool hi teacher i’m
washing from laos cool welcome
hey laos okay uh last point for this
part
which to use yet or still i’m going to
talk about
still at the end of today’s lesson
what’s the deal
yet or still because they have similar
ideas
yet sounds like just a neutral report
of expectation i haven’t eaten lunch yet
but i expect to still
however communicates a negative feeling
it usually has a negative feeling
this thing is not done and that’s bad
so that’s the difference between yet and
still for today’s lesson
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let’s go how to use already how to use
all ready
so today’s lesson uh is going to focus
on using already with present perfect
tense
and i’ll talk about some other tenses
later but
let’s look at present perfect tense
first okie dokie
so present perfect uh we use already
to emphasize or make stronger
uh a complete action or condition
a complete action or condition
that is expected so again there’s
expectation
about this action okay so
let’s look at some present perfect
example sentences
i have two patterns here because already
is sometimes used in this position and
sometimes used in this position
it’s up to you you can choose so subject
has already verb or
subject have already verb again
you need to change has or have
according to your subject also
subject has or have verb already
you can use it in this position after
the verb or verb phrase
or before so
let’s practice this okay ooh someone
already sent an example ruby i have
already done my work very nice
okay uh so here
i’ve already eaten lunch i’ve already
eaten lunch i’ve so this is
i have the reduced form of i have
i have already eaten lunch again
this sentence is also correct i’ve eaten
lunch this sentence is also correct
what’s the difference
already communicates expectation
you expect i’m going to eat lunch or i
expect
i’m going to eat lunch i want to
communicate that
so your co-worker or your classmate
says hey do you want to eat lunch you
can say
oh no i’ve already eaten lunch i’ve
already eaten lunch we communicate
expectation with this word okay
next he’s already canceled the meeting
he’s already cancelled the meeting so
there’s some expectation about the
meeting
being canceled and it happened
it’s finished it’s complete so this
shows expectation again this sentence
he’s canceled the meeting he has
canceled the meeting
that’s also correct we communicate that
expectation
okay everybody’s writing about the meals
they’ve already eaten i’ve already eaten
lunch i’ve already eaten breakfast i’ve
already eaten dinner
it’s an easy one right it’s an easy one
okay think about something like a work
or study example sentence
yeah that’s a good one let’s practice
with that one
okay here’s another good one i
think we’ve seen that movie already
i think we’ve seen that movie already
you can use this uh to reply to an
invitation
like hey do you want to see this movie
do you want to watch
this movie you can say i think we’ve or
i think
i’ve seen that movie already
so again it shows uh you understand the
other person’s expectation
okay great uh kumato says he has already
visited
paris good marco says i’ve already gone
to bed good are you riding from your bed
so good okay orlando says i have already
finished
my homework good good good good
uh oh nice example bill a wall says she
is already married yeah you can use this
in different uh sentence structures for
sure good good good
uh okay let’s continue to the last
point here i mentioned we can use this
uh already
in different grammar structures so not
just
present perfect though that’s today’s
focus grammar
we can also use it for example uh with
simple past simple past subject
already past tense verb
like she already left or i
already quit so again we’re
communicating expectation
she already left the action is finished
i already quit and the action is
finished so
these again this this is a simple past
and present perfect
question both are correct in lots of
situations
uh just the use of present perfect
shows an action uh affects the present
more strongly than this one i’m not
going to get into detail about this
grammar point
in today’s lesson though okay so you can
use already here
before the verb or after the verb
in simple past tense as well she already
left i
already quit and then somebody earlier
sent
a message about using this with
adjectives too
uh you can also use this in present
tense to express a condition
that happened faster than
expected so something again expectation
but something
was very happened very quickly for
example
you’re already hungry we ate 30 minutes
ago
so the speaker is surprised the listener
is hungry like we ate
30 minutes ago why are you hungry you’re
already hungry again so you can use this
in different grammar patterns today i
wanted to focus
on these okay uh some others are coming
in i already finished my project
good job i have already made it okay
made what um someone geo says i have
already seen your videos on youtube
cool thanks for checking those out um
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okay let’s let’s move on because time is
going quickly so this is how we use
already in a few different grammar
points
uh but uh i wanted to focus on present
perfect today oh okay we’ll take
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still how to use still and also if you
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oh geez doki hello to everyone joining
hello
some people write hello sir did you know
sir is used for a man
yeah sir is used for a man you can say
hello miss for example
that would be good some of you write
hello ma’am okay let’s go to still
still how to use still use
still to emphasize to make stronger
use still to emphasize an incomplete
action to emphasize an action that has
not finished
not done but we expect
the action will be completed so we
expect
to complete the action or
it’s an unchanged condition
that you expect will change an
unchanged condition or an incomplete
action again we expect it’s going to
change
generally still sounds negative
so the difference between yet and still
for today’s lesson is that this one
still
usually sounds negative something is not
finished
and that’s bad how do we make a sentence
with still
subject still haven’t or hasn’t
past participle verb again this is a
present
perfect sentence structure still i
still haven’t something he still hasn’t
something
so notice still comes before this part
yeah we saw different placements for
already and yet so let’s look at some
examples
i still haven’t finished my homework
i still haven’t finished my homework
so still right here shows my homework is
incomplete is not done and
that’s bad i still haven’t finished my
homework
so this sentence is correct i haven’t
finished my homework also 100
correct but still shows
a negative feeling and the incomplete
action that we expect the sentence i
haven’t finished my homework yet
is also 100 correct but there’s no
negative feeling there
it’s just a report just i expect to
finish my homework
but it’s not done this
sounds a little sad i still haven’t
finished my homework
more examples here’s one you can use as
a
confirmation question to check someone
else
for example you send your friend a text
message
on saturday and you say you still
haven’t
gotten up so to get up means to get out
of bed
yeah you still haven’t gotten up it’s 3
p.m you still haven’t gotten up it’s 3
3pm
so this shows the speaker is surprised
and feels like
negative about this action
this action to get up right here they
expect to be complete
but it’s not complete so you can use
this to express
surprise you still haven’t burned
oh my gosh so you can use that pattern
to express surprise
you still haven’t finished your homework
or you still haven’t finished that
project what are you doing
so you can use this pattern to express
that feeling
okay uh all right next one
okay some examples are coming in
everybody today everybody is using
meals i still haven’t eaten breakfast or
i still haven’t eaten lunch
okay all right here’s one he still
hasn’t replied to my message he still
hasn’t replied to my message
you can use this at work at school in
your personal life
whatever he still hasn’t replied to my
message or she still hasn’t replied to
my message
so this shows you expect a response you
expect a reply
but you have not received the reply
and that’s bad it’s kind of a negative
thing he still hasn’t replied to my
message
i hope he’s okay i hope it’s okay okay
all right uh last one she
still hasn’t found a new job
she still hasn’t found a new job so
again
uh this communicates that we’re not
happy
about this we expect she’ll find a new
job but
it hasn’t happened yet okay
um good some examples suki says i still
haven’t watched
that movie i still haven’t watched that
movie
you need a word there um that movie the
movie okay
uh carlos you still haven’t taken a
shower
good example good example okay uh
chosen john says i still haven’t gone
downtown you don’t need to that i still
haven’t gone
downtown no to the downtown uh
we used to uh with a specific place
still haven’t gone downtown okay uh last
one a cup one
point i said usually uh still
communicates a negative feeling but you
might hear it
in a sentence like this with time so
this is a different
type of sentence than these examples but
i want to make sure we talk about it
it’s still 5 p.m let’s go out for dinner
what does this mean this still you might
hear still
in this position or only in this
position
you check your watch oh it’s still 5 pm
or it’s just
5 pm or sometimes it’s still just 5 pm
or it’s still only regardless the idea
is the same
that means the speaker is surprised
because it seems
early maybe it’s really dark outside
and you think oh it’s late like eight
o’clock nine o’clock
i don’t know so but you check your watch
oh it’s still 5 p.m
this communicates a surprise about the
time
so you might hear this pattern sometimes
used
in this case it’s for surprise it’s not
a negative
all right last point then note
still can also be used in simple
past structures so i covered
present perfect today mostly but we can
use this in
simple past as well for example
i told my roommate to wash the dishes
three times but he still forgot
he still forgot so this use of still
with simple past tense
feels like even though or despite
so even though i told my roommate to
wash the dishes three
times he forgot so still shows
that negative expectation yeah we can
use it in sentences like these two
so but again today’s focus grammar was
really present
perfect tense okay uh
can i use still in simple future like
with will or going to
uh yes you can like for example
even if i move to a new city to start a
new life
i will still have to i don’t know
pay rent for example something uh
you that will not change yes you can use
it in those grammar points
as well all right um
almas says i am still not sleeping could
i say it like that
depending on what you want to
communicate like if you
if recently if you have had trouble
sleeping
for example and you talked with a friend
or someone about it
you could say i i still am not sleeping
or i’m still not
sleeping if somebody knows about
a continuing situation yes and it
communicates that negative
condition yes you can’t use that okay
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describe
a past experience and i’m going to focus
on a basic gram a very very basic
grammar point
adjectives with past tense adjectives
with past tense
so uh like the movie
was exciting or uh
dinner was really fun so we’re going to
focus
on past experiences and how to
talk about those kinds of things i’ll
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