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How sad it is that you are yet against of making this useful thread a sticky even when it is mentioned on the top that this forum is for non-technical general discussion ...
This would be better:
It's sad that you are still against making this useful thread a sticky.
Both are correct. The difference is in whether you use the Active or Passive voice. In your example, the second line is Active and while both are correct, the second line is more correct.
Actually both sentences are in the passive voice. The only difference is the aspect of the verb (present perfect vs. simple past)
Aah, so "yet" is supposed to be used with "again"!
Yes, but not exclusively:
I haven't decided yet.
This is yet another thread in which I talk rubbish.
You don't have to leave yet - your train departs in a few hours.
Fedora is a decent distro, yet there's something about it that I don't like.
In this case, asking that this thread is made a sticky, "you are yet again against making this useful thread a sticky", yet adds a bit of emphasis. If you were saying that phrase, you would stress yet, indicating frustration that what you asked for wasn't happening.
Anisha, If it's still not clear, I'd get a decent English-English dictionary (Oxford, Cambridge, Longman, MacMillan) and go through all yet's meanings. It is like with man pages - there's no better source of information than that
IMO, a good exercise would be to go through the examples that were provided in this thread and see which definition best describes each sentence. Just a suggestion...
The use of word "yet" to indicate frustration was clear to me already, in post 730, I was stressing w.r.t the word "again" used with yet.
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Originally Posted by sycamorex
Anisha, If it's still not clear, I'd get a decent English-English dictionary (Oxford, Cambridge, Longman, MacMillan) and go through all yet's meanings.
Thanks for the links and I promise, next time before asking here, I will RTFM as we are supposed to do before creating a new thread.
It is sad that if people start reading the man pages and searching Google, this thread will die soon
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