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Hello Armsys,Maybe the following extract from answer.com would help explain the usage of 'yet':"YETadv. At this time; for the present: isn't ready yet. Up to a specified time; thus far: The end had not yet come. At a future time; eventually: may yet change his mind. Besides; in addition: returned...

The real Anon! Anonymous wrote: Pucca wrote: And going back to the topic..an anonimous post would be helpful if you want to ask something but you don't want others to see who is asking so. Let me disagree with you. If the community can se who is asking a certain question, the answer...

Hi Anon, "has passed" isn't past tense - it's present perfect. You're right, "quick" doesn't sound good, but "quickly" sounds just fine. "The time has passed so quickly" is so commonly said that it might as well be an idiom. It's always great to have new contributors, but perhaps you might be...

A. In many cases "stay away" and "keep away" could be interchangeable, but not in the two examples you give. 1. "Keep away" here would suggest that there was something dangerous about the school itself, rather than just a difficulty in getting to the school. "Everyone has to stay away/keep...

The present tenses (present (simple) and present progressive) can express future time in English, not just the will form. The idiom going to also expresses future time. She the television, I'll pay him, and not a minute sooner. (completion of a task) CJ

Rotter wrote:The little boy has been sat at the table by his father and is not permitted to leave it until his plate is clean as a whistle.1] Is it correct to say 'has been sat at the table' in any context?Yes, it is correct. It is a (present perfect) passive construct. The boy didn't want to...

1.How much water does that tank..........? a) comprise b) include c) consist d) contain (I'm not sure between 'comprise' and 'contain') "comprise" takes as its object(s) persons or things that are constituent parts. "That tank comprises a lot of water" says that a lot of water is a...

Hello Starlet Unfortunately it's not always possible to map Italian tenses directly to English ones, but here's a rough guide. It's probably easiest to take each tense separately in each language: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Passato...

The idiom is "have got" in both American and British English. It is a purely idiomatic alternate for "have" and is not much used except in the present tense. That is, "have got" is the present tense of this idiom, even though "get" is the present tense form of "to get", and the past is "got". ...

Hi, Yes, the "done" examples are difficult. "Done" sometimes functions as a past participle of do. There is the idiom of "have done", which can mean completed or finished. I think "What did you have done?" is a complicated structure for those learning English. For those of us whose first...