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🔘Already, just and yet📌

🔗 1. Already is used to talk about something that has happened sooner than expected. It shows surprise. 
Just means exactly or very recently.
◇It is just one o’clock. (= It is exactly one o’clock.)
◇She has just arrived. (= Very recently)

♡Compare:
◇She has already left. (= She has left but we weren’t expecting that she would leave so soon.)
◇She has just left. (= She left a moment ago.)

■Just can also mean only.
◇I just want a glass of water.
◇I just asked.

○Just is not used in questions or negative sentences.

🔗 2. Position of just, yet and already

■Already usually goes with the verb. If there is no auxiliary verb, already goes before the verb. If there is an auxiliary verb, it goes after the auxiliary verb.
◇She already arrived. (NOT She arrived already.)
◇She has already arrived. (NOT She already has arrived.)
◇I have already finished.
◇Have you already finished?

○Yet usually goes at the end of a clause. It can also go immediately after not.
◇Don’t eat those mangoes - they are not ripe yet.OR Don’t eat those mangoes - they are not yet ripe.

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🔘Already, just and yet📌

🔗 1. Already is used to talk about something that has happened sooner than expected. It shows surprise. 
Just means exactly or very recently.
◇It is just one o’clock. (= It is exactly one o’clock.)
◇She has just arrived. (= Very recently)

♡Compare:
◇She has already left. (= She has left but we weren’t expecting that she would leave so soon.)
◇She has just left. (= She left a moment ago.)

■Just can also mean only.
◇I just want a glass of water.
◇I just asked.

○Just is not used in questions or negative sentences.

🔗 2. Position of just, yet and already

■Already usually goes with the verb. If there is no auxiliary verb, already goes before the verb. If there is an auxiliary verb, it goes after the auxiliary verb.
◇She already arrived. (NOT She arrived already.)
◇She has already arrived. (NOT She already has arrived.)
◇I have already finished.
◇Have you already finished?

○Yet usually goes at the end of a clause. It can also go immediately after not.
◇Don’t eat those mangoes - they are not ripe yet.OR Don’t eat those mangoes - they are not yet ripe.