Still - Yet - Already
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Still - Yet - Already
"Still" , "Yet" and "Already" are words which often cause trouble for students of English. So let's try and distinguish clearly between them.
Still - continuing action
Yet - non-commenced or non-terminated action
Already - terminated action or an acquired state
We use still not yet or already to refer to the continuation of a situation:
Negatives with yet mean that something has not happened up to now:
Negatives with still suggest that the situation should have changed, but it has not:
Negatives with already are far less common than negatives with yet andstill. They usually refer to things which should have happened before they did happen: