I have yet to speak ..../ I have to speak...yet

ademoglu · Oct 27, 2014

Hello,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv250.shtml

- I have yet to speak to the personnel manager to discuss my future.
- I have to speak to the personnel manager to discuss my future yet.

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/azar/grammar_ex/message_board/archive/articles/00334.html

- He is yet a child.
- He is a child yet.

I would like to ask if we can put 'yet' at the end of those sentences.

Thank you!

tedmc · Oct 27, 2014

You put 'yet' at the end of a sentence which is in the negative.

I have not spoken to the personnel manager to discuss my future yet.
He is not a child yet.

not a teacher

Rover_KE · Oct 27, 2014

tedmc said:
You put 'yet' at the end of a sentence which is in the negative.

I have not spoken to the personnel manager to discuss my future yet.:tick:

[STRIKE]He is not a child yet.[/STRIKE] Incorrect.

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Rover_KE · Oct 27, 2014

Matthew and tedmc, please wait for a teacher or native speaker to answer before conducting half-baked discussions on topics you only partly understand, putting us to the trouble of correcting your mistakes and tidying up the thread as well as answering the OP.

Matthew Wai said:
Is it incorrect because the OP's sentence means 'He is still a child'?

Yes.

tedmc said:
Obviously, OP means 'he is not a child'.

Obviously, he does not mean that.

Matthew Wai said:
A baby cannot talk or walk but a child can, how can a baby be considered a child?

A baby is very definitely a child. Even a foetus is called 'an unborn child'.

tedmc said:
OP wrote this:
- He is yet a child.
- He is a child yet.

whatever they mean.

If you don't know what they mean, why don't you wait for a native speaker to answer?

Rover_KE · Oct 27, 2014

ademoglu said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv250.shtml

- I have yet to speak to the personnel manager to discuss my future.:tick:

- I have to speak to the personnel manager to discuss my future yet. This is incorrect.

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/azar/grammar_ex/message_board/archive/articles/00334.html

- He is yet a child. This is a literary or poetic way of saying 'He is still a child'.
- He is a child yet. This is an even more poetic way of saying 'He is a child still'.

Do not use these constructions in informal speech or you will probably be misunderstood (as you have been).

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