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Guest  #11623  Mon, 27 Oct 03 07:15 PM

I have a friend who uses the word yet in the followig way:

"There are two weeks left yet", meaning that there are still two weeks left.

This does not sound right to me, but I know that yet can be used at the end of a sentence for example like "He has not gone to the store yet". I cannot figure out if the above is a correct usage or not, and if so why. Can you help.

Dorothy
  
Woodward  #11644  Tue, 28 Oct 03 03:21 AM
YET is mostly used with the perfect tense meaning 'until now'.
What I think your friend meant was: There are still two weeks left.
  
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