I am not yet ready/I am not ready yet

[Talab1234]

1.) I am not yet ready.
2.) I am not ready yet.

Do these two sentences mean the same thing? Are both grammatically correct?

 

[teechar]

Yes, and yes.

 

[GoesStation]

Number two is more natural in modern English.

 

[teechar]

Both sound equally natural to me.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/gra...tart=1970&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3

 

[GoesStation]

I should have said "in spoken English."

 

[Phaedrus]

Interestingly, the placement of yet in (1) is the placement we always use with quite:

I am not quite ready.
*[strike]I am not ready quite[/strike].