5 exercises — placing already (mid-position), yet (sentence-final, negatives/questions), and still (continuation) correctly in status updates and release notes.
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Which sentence correctly places "already" in a status update reporting that a deploy finished ahead of schedule?
"We have already deployed the fix" is correct. "Already" — used in affirmative sentences to emphasize that something happened sooner than expected — is placed between the auxiliary verb and the main verb ("have already deployed"), the standard mid-position for frequency/time adverbs with a perfect tense. Option A places it before the auxiliary, which is not the natural mid-position order. Option C places it after the main verb, awkwardly separating the verb from its object ("deployed already the fix"), which is not standard. Option D front-loads "already" and adds an unrelated "generally," creating a clunky, non-idiomatic sentence. Rule: in perfect tenses, "already" goes between the auxiliary ("have"/"has") and the past participle.
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Which sentence correctly uses "yet" to ask whether a task has been completed?
"Have you reviewed the PR yet?" is correct. "Yet" — used in questions and negatives to ask about or state that something hasn't happened up to now — goes at the end of the sentence, after the full verb phrase and object. This is different from "already," which sits mid-sentence. Option A and D place "yet" too early (before the verb or sentence-initially), which is not standard English word order for this use. Option B inserts "yet" between the verb and its object ("reviewed yet the PR"), breaking up the verb phrase incorrectly. Rule: "yet" in questions/negatives is a sentence-final adverb: "Has the build finished yet?" / "I haven't merged it yet."
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Which sentence correctly places "still" to emphasize that a known problem has NOT been resolved, contrary to expectation?
"The bug is still not fixed" is correct. "Still" — used to emphasize the continuation of an ongoing (often unwanted) situation — takes the standard mid-position for adverbs with the verb "to be": after "is" and before "not". Option A places "still" at the sentence end after "fixed," which sounds like an afterthought rather than the intended continuation-emphasis, and reads unnaturally with "is fixed still" as a contradiction (fixed vs. still, out of order). Option B places "still" before "is," which is grammatically possible in some dialects but less standard/idiomatic than the "is still not" order in this context. Option D front-loads "still" and adds a vague "in general," producing an unnatural, overly hedged sentence. Rule: with the verb "to be," time adverbs like "still," "already," and "just" go directly after the verb "to be" and before any following negation or complement.
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A release note draft mixes up these three adverbs. Which corrected sentence is grammatically AND semantically right: "The rate limiter feature is _____ in beta; it hasn't been rolled out to all customers _____, but early adopters can _____ enable it in settings."
"Still / yet / already" is correct, in that order. First blank: "still in beta" — the feature continues to be in beta (ongoing state), which calls for "still," not "yet" (which needs a negative/question context) or "already" (which implies earlier-than-expected completion, contradicting "in beta"). Second blank: "hasn't been rolled out... yet" — a negative statement about something not having happened up to now, the textbook use of sentence-final "yet". Third blank: "can already enable it" — emphasizing that, surprisingly, the option exists sooner than a reader might expect, the textbook use of mid-position "already". Each of the three adverbs has a distinct grammatical environment: "still" continues affirmative ongoing states, "yet" needs negative/question contexts (or sentence-final "already" in some questions), and "already" emphasizes earlier-than-expected completion in affirmative statements.
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Which sentence contains a genuine adverb placement error (not just an unusual but valid alternative order)?
"We have merged already the fix" is the genuine error — "already" cannot be inserted between the main verb ("merged") and its direct object ("the fix"); this separation is not permitted for this class of adverb in standard English. The other three are all grammatical, differing only in register/emphasis: "We have already merged the fix" (standard mid-position, neutral), "Already, we have merged the fix" (fronted for emphasis, slightly more formal/rhetorical), and "We have merged the fix already" (sentence-final, common in spoken/informal English, often implying "sooner than you'd think"). Takeaway: mid-position (between auxiliary and verb) and end-position (after the object) are both valid for "already"; only the verb-object-splitting position is wrong.
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Practise correct placement of already, yet, and still in status updates, release notes, and standups. 5 exercises.
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