The use of 'yet'with present tense and present perfect tense.
Let's say I have an app developed by my college which streams live lectures. The lecture starts from 8:00 AM, if I click on "Go Live" button in the app to view the lecture, the following message pops up:
The live class is not started yet.
I have this feeling that the above sentence is a little loose, but is it grammatically wrong in the said context? It's equivalent could be:
The live class has not started yet.
I remeber learning from Alison courses that "yet" is only used with perfect tenses. But here is the exception:
The old is dead, the new is yet to be born.
So, by this thread I have basically two questions:
1. Is the message popped in the app correct grammatically?
2. Is "yet" used only with perfect tenses?
Top answer
Hall The live class has not started yet. That is the correct statement. But: The speaker isn't ready to begin yet.
- Hall The live class has not started yet.
- That is the correct statement.
- But: The speaker isn't ready to begin yet.
- For dynamic verbs, the present perfect is used.
- You use yet in negative sentences to say that something has not happened up to the present time, although it probably will happen.
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HallThe live class has not started yet.
That is the correct statement.
But:
The speaker isn't ready to begin yet.
For dynamic verbs, the present perfect is used.
You use yet in negative sentences to say that something has not happened up to the present time, although it probably will happen.
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