Usage of still

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Hello,Can one use still at the end of the sentence? Instead of: He still kept doing it.Can we say: He kept doing it still.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Yes.  It is slightly literary.

Cool Breeze · Answer

Still can be placed at the end of a sentence. It can also be at the beginning or in mid-position, where frequency adverbs are often placed. The meaning changes with the position.

Still, he is still standing still.

The first still means the same as yet / however and the last still means 'motionless / stationary'. In informal and poetic styles still can have the same meaning at the end as it has in mid-position: I love her still. Common sense, which so often has to be resorted to in English, immediately tells us that still cannot possibly mean 'motionless' in the previous sentence.

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