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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

"Just Yet"

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00I noticed a lot of people uses the phrase "just yet".02br
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00"are you sleeping yet?"02br
00"not just yet."02br
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00My question here is, is the phrase actually correct?02br
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00just - adjective, adverb.02br
00yet - adverb, conjunction.02br
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00I don't think you don't use an adjective before an adverb, or do we? 0-
  

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0 I think the phrase is fine.02br
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00From a dictionary:...02br
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00"'Just' (adverb) means 'exactly', e.g. 'You can have it, but not just yet.'" 0-
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0Yes; adverb + adverb.02br
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00MrP0-
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0 okie.02br
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00any other examples of adverb + adverb usage? 0-
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0He...wrote...his...reply...to...the...post...01u00really...slowly02u00...0-
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0I very happily accept that answer 050010id1
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0 In that case the adverbs are refering to the "wrote" which is a verb?02br
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00But in the case of "are you sleeping soon?" "not just yet", there isn't a verb. not just sleeping yet? not sleeping just yet? btoh doesn't make sense to me.02br
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00Sorry, I can't understand how it works yet.02br
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00"I am very very tired."02br
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0Yes; "slowly" modifies the verb, and "really" modifies "slowly".02br
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00While in your example:02br
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001. "Are you going to bed soon?" "No, not just yet."02br
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00– the "just yet" modifies an unexpressed verb phrase: "No, (I'm) not (going to bed) just yet."02br
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00MrP0-
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0 oie thanks! now i get it. 0-
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