How To Use Commas With Yet
The numbers do offer a sobering picture and yet it s far from all gloom and doom.
How to use commas with yet. I haven t finished it yet. For example you may say we have yet to determine if she is on board or our guests are yet to arrive. Have you finished your homework yet. I ll do it after dinner. This approach is often used in more formal discussions or conversations.
Yet in this context is only used in negative sentences and questions. Yet used with the present perfect means at any time up to now. You may also say the price has yet to be announced. For example you have the phrase yet another which means in addition or again. Normally you should put a comma between two complete sentences that are joined with a coordinating conjunction and or but for nor so yet that creates a single sentence with two independent clauses.
We use have yet to and be yet to in more formal contexts. We use it to emphasise that we expect something to happen soon. The price will be decided the president and her husband are yet to arrive. When you find yourself using the phrase and yet consider whether any meaning would be lost if and were dropped. English using already still and yet definitions and example sentences.
The price of the tickets for the concert has yet to be decided. We use them to refer to events which are necessary or which must happen at some time but which have not happened at the time of speaking. Because it seems natural to pause before the word yet many people s instinct is to insert a comma at that point in the sentence. Interestingly yet can be combined with other words to form phrases. When yet is used as a conjunction and yet is redundant and and could usually be cut.
Have you already taken the money. He hasn t arrived yet. This is a simple way of saying the team has been on a losing streak and that they have again lost another match. He has already done the shopping he is watching t v now. My team has lost yet another match.