Can anyone explain to me gramatically yet vs still or send me a link pleasee

Question

examples : Im still not going to bed , im gonna watch Tv instead. Im not going to the airport yet , I still gotta get ready for that. i would like to know if I use yet and still apporpiately and aslo when to use both separately or togheter. Many thanks ahead ! : )

Answer 1

Yet is normally placed at the end of the clause, particularly in informal English and in questions, but can go immediately after not in negative sentences in a more formal style, such as Cambridge Dictionaries and the British Library have used.

Compare also the following:

How long have you been in Britain?

For over a year now.

Have you been to Wales or Scotland yet?

No, not yet. I haven't even ventured out of London yet.

Although she has been in Britain for more than a year, Maria has not yet visited either Wales or Scotland.

Yet - meaning and use We use yet in questions to ask whether something has happened up to the present time. Not yet then indicates that it hasn't happened yet:

Is dinner ready yet? I'm starving.

No, it's not ready yet. It'll be another half an hour.

In a more formal style it is possible to use yet in affirmative sentences:

We have yet to discover whether there are any survivors from the plane crash.

. I have yet to speak to the personnel manager to discuss my future.

In a less formal style, we might say:

We still don't know whether there are survivors from the plane crash.

I haven't spoken to the manager yet, so don't know what my future will be.

I still haven't spoken to the manager, so don't know what my future will be.

Thus (therefore), in negative sentences, as we can see from these examples, there is considerable overlap in meaning and use between yet and still.

Still is the more emphatic of the two.

still - meaning and use We use still in questions, affirmative and negative sentences to indicate that something is not finished and that we are perhaps surprised or concerned about this. Because it is emphatic, it often carries considerable word stress:

Is it still raining?

Yes, it's still raining. No chance of playing tennis today, I'm afraid.

I still don't know whether Brendan will be coming to the engagement party. I've tried to reach him several times on the phone, but can't seem to get hold of him.

Answer 2

1. "I'm not going to bed yet" means that I will go to bed, just not right now. Nothing is expressed about any prior condition. This is the simplest sentence of the two.

   "I'm still not going to bed" implies a prior condition or wish of someone, for instance that someone has wanted this person to go to bed before now, but that hasn't happened "yet". So if Bill was supposed to go to bed at 8, and wanted to be in bed at least by 9, but now it's 9:30, he might say, "I'm still not going to bed, because I have to take out the garbage.

2. In your sentence "I'm still not going to bed, I'm going to watch TV instead", that implies to me that Bill's wife has been working on him earlier in the evening to get him into bed. If Bill had said "I'm not going to bed yet, I'm going to watch TV instead", there would be no implication of anything else.

3. In your sentence: "I'm not going to the airport yet , I still gotta get ready for that."- this is a perfectly fine sentence. The second clause provides the reason for "not going yet" - which is "I still have to get ready for that." Getting ready has been on the list of things to do for the trip, and it's not been done yet , so it still must be done.

Great question, and I hope my answer made sense.

• Goyo I think that's a wonderful explanation! - Valerie May 19, 2010
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