Using Still, Yet, Ready, Any more

By: Khairil Mahfud on 19.52

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Hello guys

Welcome back! After long time we have not giving an imsightful. So here I am!

Today we are going to learnabout Grammar. J it is a little bit tricky

Topic     : Still, yet and already    Anymore/any longer/ no longer (Raymond Murphy in Essential Grammar In Use)

Still

we use still to say that  situation or action is continuing. It hasn’t changedor stopped :

·         It’s 10 o’clock and Tom is still in bed

·         When I went to bed, Jane was still working

·         Do you still want to go to the party or have you changed your mind

Any more/any longer/no longer

We use not… any more or not … any longer to say that a situation has changed. Any more and any longer go at the end of sentence

Any longer go at the end of sentence

·         Ann doesn’t work here any more (or any longer). She left last month

·         We used to be good friends but we are any more (or any longer)

You can also use no longer. No longer goes in the middle of the sentence

·         Ann no longer works here

Note that we do not normally use no more I this way

·         We are no longer friends (not “we are no more friends”)

Compare still and not… any more

·         Sheilla still works here but Ann doesn’t work here any more

Yet

Yet=’until now’, wev use yet mainly in negative sentences (I haven’t finished yet) and questions (haveyou finished yet?). yet shows that the speaker is expecting something to happen.

Yet usually go t theend of sentences

·         It’s 10 o’clock and tom hasn’t got up yet.

·         I’m hungry. Is dinner ready yet?

·         We don’t know where we’re going for our holidays yet.

We often use yet with the present perfect (have you finished yet)

Compare yet and still

·         Jack lost his job a year ago and is still unemployed ===  jack lost his job a year ago and hasn’t found another job yet

·         Is it still rainining?===has it stopped raining yet?

Still is also possible in negative sentences (before the negative)

·         She said he would be here an hour ago and she still hasn’t come

This is similar to “she hasn’t come yet”. But still… not shows a stronger feeling of surprise or impatience. Compare :

·         I wrote to him last week. He hasn’t replied yet. (but I expect )