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Do I use 'was' or 'has'?
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Guest  #8069  Sun, 14 Sep 03 04:28 PM
Which is correct - "the outstanding work was not yet started" or "the outstanding work has not started" or could you please make a correct/better one?
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maj  #8075  Sun, 14 Sep 03 10:15 PM
The outstanding work has not started yet. Yet is used in negative and interrogatives sentences and placed at the end of the sentence.
  
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Pemmican  #8148  Mon, 15 Sep 03 06:32 PM
Both sentences are correct.

"has not started yet" is the active voice of the present perfect which means that the work itself hasn't begun yet.

"was not started yet" is the passive voice of the past tense. The passive expresses that something (here: the outstanding work) "is done" by someone (who isn't mentioned here).

  
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