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  • six from BBC learning english dot com.

  • Hello again.

  • Welcome to six minute grammar with me.

  • Finn and me, Alice.

  • Hello.

  • Today's program is all about the present perfect tense on dhe.

  • How to use it with the words just already.

  • And yet that's right.

  • And there'll be a quiz for you at the end to see how much you remember.

  • Yes.

  • So let's get started now.

  • The present.

  • Perfect with Just hold on.

  • Sorry.

  • Hey, Alice.

  • Hamish?

  • Yeah, I'm here.

  • I've just arrived at King's cross station.

  • Kings Cross Kings Cross here in in London.

  • Yeah, in London town.

  • Here I am.

  • My train got in an hour ago.

  • I've already visited Buckingham Palace in Trafalgar Square.

  • What?

  • Already?

  • Yeah, yeah, but I haven't been on the, uh on the London eye yet known.

  • I want to go there next.

  • Uh, can you meet me there in 10 minutes?

  • Sorry, Hamish, we've just started the program.

  • Sorry about that.

  • Don't worry, Alice.

  • Those were great examples off the present.

  • Perfect with just already.

  • And yet And here's Catherine.

  • Hello.

  • Hello.

  • To repeat those examples or us Catherine, I've just arrived at King's cross station.

  • I've already visited Buckingham Palace on Trafalgar Square.

  • But I haven't bean on the London eye yet.

  • Now you may have spotted that the sentences with just on already are positive.

  • But the sentence with yet is negative.

  • Yes, We used just on already mainly in positive sentences on dhe.

  • Yet in negative sentences and in questions.

  • Ok, now let's look at some other differences between just already.

  • And yet first we use just with the present.

  • Perfect for something that happened only a short time ago.

  • Hamish has just phoned.

  • He's just arrived in London on Dhe.

  • I've just told him to call back later.

  • No, we use already with the present.

  • Perfect.

  • When an action has happened before, now or before we expected it to happen.

  • Yes, Hamish has already bean to Buckingham Palace.

  • Now let's look at word order.

  • Both just and already come between the auxiliary and the past participle.

  • Catherine, can we have some examples again, please?

  • Hamish has just phoned.

  • He's already visited Buckingham Palace.

  • Thanks, Catherine.

  • I'm sorry, Hamish.

  • I've already told you I'm doing six minute grammar.

  • I'll call you in a few minutes.

  • Great.

  • Another example off already.

  • Alice, I've already told you.

  • Have I finished yet?

  • No.

  • Sorry, we haven't finished yet.

  • By Hey, Michigan.

  • Hey, Michigan.

  • Ah, he asked.

  • Have you finished yet?

  • And you said we haven't finished yet?

  • Yes, yet with present.

  • Perfect.

  • We use yet to ask if something has happened before now or to say something has not happened up to now.

  • So that yet for negative sentences or questions with the present perfect on yet always comes at the end of a sentence.

  • By the way, Alice, we haven't explained how to form the present.

  • Perfect.

  • Yet.

  • You're right, Finn.

  • So we make the present perfect with a subject.

  • Plus have has haven't Or hasn't Andi the past participle.

  • Remember, we put just on already between have or has on the past participle on report.

  • Yet at the end of a negative sentence or question to BBC learning english dot com.

  • Let me.

  • I'm a two mature over.

  • You finished?

  • Hamish?

  • Hamish, He's in reception hall.

  • Has he got here already?

  • That was quick.

  • Yes.

  • So sometimes we can put already at the end of a question to show surprise.

  • Yes, on.

  • I think it's time for a quiz.

  • No, number one.

  • I'm going to say a sentence and you have to fill in the gap.

  • Here goes.

  • I haven't seen Spider Man two.

  • It's I haven't seen Spider Man two yet because you haven't seen the film before Now correct Number two.

  • Hamish has only bean in London for one hour and he's being to Trafalgar Square.

  • It's already because we're stressing the fact that he's done something before we expected it.

  • Great.

  • Now question three.

  • Oh, your phone has rung just No, really.

  • Your phone has just run.

  • Pass me the phone.

  • Alice.

  • Hamish, Alice has just told you that we haven't finished yet.

  • 00!

  • Oh, Sorry.

  • Uh, what's the matter?

  • It's not Hamish.

  • It's your mom.

  • Oh, sorry.

  • Never mind.

  • There's more about this on our website at BBC learning english dot com Join us again for more six minute grandma.

  • Bye bye.

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