Meaning of "She hasn't come home yet..."

[Prasanthi]

Hello sir

thanks for your explanation

Prasanthi

[Misskhan]

Dear Mr. Alan

Could you please explain this 3rd one sentence?

3)I worked as a teacher every day for 10 years. (but I don't work now)

That's fine and it suggests that the sentence doesn't have any connection to any time now but is just a statement about the past.

If I am not wrong we just mention "time" in "Present Perfect Countinuous Tense" & "Past Perfect Countinuous Tense"

isn't it?

Thanks in advance

[Humna]

Hi
I could not understand difference between all these 4 options .Speacialy in yet and still . Could you help me please .

Thanks

[T.Ruth]

Hi Alan!

If yet means 'up until now', why do we say,
Is she home yet? and not Isn't she home yet?
I hope you could help me on this.
Thanks!

Ruth

[Nainajain]

[Nainajain]

hi Alan,
what I understood from the explanation you gave is that yet is used in negative sentences, it cannot be used in positive sentences and still in those sentences in which the work is still not completed or is still continuing i.e the sentence "The result is yet to come" is wrong
and "The result is still to come" and "the result has not come yet" are correct.
Please correct me if i ma wrong...
Also please tell me are the following sentences correct:
1. Naina's boss insulted her in front of her colleagues but she is still working there.
2. Naina's boss insulted her in front of her colleagues but she has not resigned yet.
3. Naina's boss insulted her in front of her colleagues but she still works there.

[Misskhan]

Dear Nainajain,

First both (1 and 2)sentences are correct

[Iraberezhany]

Hello Alan,
I would like to ask you something about reported speech. As far as I know we do not change the tense of the original words in reported speech when the direct speech includes an "unreal past". For example, "I wish I were younger" --- "She said she wished she were younger". But what about this sentense "If I had time I would come to you". How can we say it in indirect speech?
Thanks

[Mister Micawber]

She said that she wished she had been younger.
She said that if she had had time, she would have come to me.
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Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's

[Theja Gadicherla]

[Simsim]

oh...on that test it occured a little problem due to my computer hardware,so the results aren't real...but I''ll go on and I'll try to get the explenations what I need for my missings grammar items.

[Hellofriend]

1) I have been working as a teacher every day for 10 years. (but I don't work now)
2) I had been working as a teacher every day for 10 years. (but I don't work now)

In above sentences both had been and have been can be used with I ?

[Irinamihaeladanila]

Hi Alan,'

Quick question. I know in English we say "inside joke" (clear only to those people who are "inside" a social group), and not "internal joke". Are there any particular circumstances where the construction "internal joke" might be accepted?

Kind regards,
Irina

[Beeesneees]

[Hellofriend]

Hello Mr. Beeesneees,

Wow this is great. Thanks a lot for your reply.