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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

already - yet

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00could you tell me the difference between these sentences?01ol
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  1. 00Have you already seen this movie? It's Miami Vice...02li
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  2. 00Have you seen this movie yet? It's Miami Vice...02li
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00I think #1 is equivalent to "Have you seen this movie at least another time in the past? or Have you ever seen it?", and #2 is more or less like "Do you still have to see this movie?"02br
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00In other words, it seems to me that #1 is a pretty general question, but if I use #2 it seems that the listener is somehow supposed to watch that movie, sooner or later.02br
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00Waiting for your advice, thank you in advance. 050010id1
  

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12br 11ol 12br 11li 10Have you already seen this movie? It's Miami Vice... 12br 11li 10Have you seen this movie yet?

— Inchoateknowledge

  • 12br 11ol 12br 11li 10Have you already seen this movie?
  • It's Miami Vice...
  • 12br 11li 10Have you seen this movie yet?
  • 12li 12br 12br 10I think #1 is equivalent to "Have you seen this movie at least another time in the past?
  • 12br 12br 10Waiting for your advice, thank you in advance.
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite10Hi,12br
10could you tell me the difference between these sentences?12br
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  1. 10Have you already seen this movie? It's Miami Vice... 12br
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  2. 10Have you seen this movie yet? It's Miami Vice...12li
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    10I th
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0 I heard that the difference is:02br
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00Already --> You are almost sure that it happened, you just want to check it out.02br
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00Yet --> You have no idea about what happened.02br
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00Best wishes 050010id5
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0 I'm sorry, I think I don't get it yet...02br
00The problem is: 01b01i00"Already and yet in questions"02br
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02i02b00From a website: "We use 01b00yet02b00 in questions to ask whether something has happened up to the present time." But what confuses me is that I remember being told that us
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Hello everyone!Emotion: smile

I have problems with these two words too..

I have just finished watching a movie, one of the main
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already situates our thoughts in the past.
yet situates our thoughts in the future.

Have you already seen this movie? -- because if you have already seen this movie, then I'm not going to bother to tell you what it's about, and I'm not going to recommend that you see it. In this question I am doubtful, but leaning toward thinking that you may have seen the
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Thank you for your answer, CalifJim!Emotion: smile

I don't know if you have watched 'In her shoes', I took the sentence from there..
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Heh, you found an old thread of mine... an incomplete thread.
I left it as it was, and I've tryied to avoid "already" in questions. I thought "already" was used in questions when you were surprised, kind of. Like "Have you already finished? But you just started!"
So I left he thread incomplete, and thought the way to ask someone if they had seen the movie at least once was saying "Have y
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Yeah, as I said, I have problems with these two words, and knew it was once discused, so, I typed to two words and found this thread!
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No, it's the same. You can put "already" at the end if you want. The problem is that in those examples you (and I) don't really know what it means. A normal example would be:
- I already told you.
- I told you already.

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Thanks for answering my question, Kooyeen!Emotion: smile

..I think we will have to wait for someone else..
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