Feb 17, 2026 · 15 min · 10 segments
Asa senior manager you constantly report on progress, what’s done, what’s delayed, what’s ongoing, and what’s stopped. In this episode, you’ll learn how to use four essential adverbs to make your…
The four adverbs we're gonna have a look at today are still, anymore, already, and yet.
They help you position your different tasks and situations in relation to an expectation or deadline, we could also say here.
I'm not gonna jump into too much detail around the grammar, and I'm coming at this from a lens of reporting progress.
There are other ways that we use these adverbs, yes, but we're looking at this very specific use today.
As a quick way to split them up, when we're talking about reporting progress, still is to signify something that's continuing longer than we had expected.
Anymore, used in negative sentences, is talking about something that was previously true or relevant or a task that we were doing that has now stopped.
When we use already, we're talking about something that at the point of speaking has already been completed and actually earlier than we had expected, so that's good news.
Finally, yet, we're talking about a task that we'd expected to finish but has not been completed so far.
The four adverbs we're gonna have a look at today are still, anymore, already, and yet.
They help you position your different tasks and situations in relation to an expectation or deadline, we could also say here.
I'm not gonna jump into too much detail around the grammar, and I'm coming at this from a lens of reporting progress.
There are other ways that we use these adverbs, yes, but we're looking at this very specific use today.
As a quick way to split them up, when we're talking about reporting progress, still is to signify something that's continuing longer than we had expected.
Anymore, used in negative sentences, is talking about something that was previously true or relevant or a task that we were doing that has now stopped.
When we use already, we're talking about something that at the point of speaking has already been completed and actually earlier than we had expected, so that's good news.
Finally, yet, we're talking about a task that we'd expected to finish but has not been completed so far.
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