Sunday, September 15, 2019

C1 - unit 1A: Uses of YET

In this lesson we've seen the use of YET in two sentences from the extracs of p.7:
  • Alternating between Elisavyeta's and Pavel's competing YET complementary perspectives...
  • Together we were earning around $100,000 and YET it just got frittered away in cabs and restaurants.
As you can see, YET can be used as:
  • an adverb
  • to discuss an additional idea
  • to give emphasis
  • as a conjunction
To see how to use it go to this link, or to this one. This last link is just to see good examples in which YET is used as a conjunction: click here.

To sum up, YET is an adverb that means the action is not finished or it's in progress ("todavía", "aún"). But as a conjunction the meaning is similar to "however" ("y aún así"). With superlatives the translation should be "hasta ahora".




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