Present Perfect Simple with just.already and yet 6 Read the sentences from the article and answer the questions. a Today, Ive already spent two hours in meetings. b Ivejust spent an hour writing emails. c Ihaven't even looked at a video game yet today. d They've just made me Quality Assurance Manager, so I feel happy about that. e Tve alreadyhad two pay increases. f Ihaven't become bored with it yet, and I don't expect to. Which two sentences 1 describe things that have happened very recently? 2 describe things that have not been done or have not happened? 3 describe things that happened some time in the past, without saying specifically when?

1. Sentences b and d describe things that have happened very recently. Sentence b uses "just" to indicate that the action of spending an hour writing emails has just occurred, while sentence d uses "just" to indicate that the promotion to Quality Assurance Manager has just happened.<br /><br />2. Sentences c and f describe things that have not been done or have not happened. Sentence c uses "haven't even" to indicate that the action of looking at a video game has not occurred yet, while sentence f uses "haven't" to indicate that the speaker has not become bored with something yet.<br /><br />3. Sentences a, d, and e describe things that happened some time in the past, without saying specifically when. Sentence a uses "already" to indicate that the action of spending two hours in meetings has occurred at some point in the past. Sentence d uses "just" to indicate that the promotion to Quality Assurance Manager has occurred at some point in the past, without specifying when. Sentence e uses "already" to indicate that the action of having two pay increases has occurred at some point in the past.