USE OF ALREADY,YET,FOR AND SINCE IN PRESENT PERFECT






USE OF ALREADY,YET,FOR AND SINCE IN PRESENT PERFECT


Using the present perfect, we can define a period of time before now by considering its duration, with for + a period of time, or by considering its starting point, with since + a point in time. FOR and SINCE can also both be used with the past perfect. SINCE can only be used with perfect tenses. FOR can also be used with the simple past.
FOR + A PERIOD OF TIME
for six years, for a week, for a month, for hours, for two hours
I have worked here for five years.
SINCE + A POINT IN TIME
since this morning, since last week, since yesterday
since I was a child, since Wednesday, since 2 o'clock
I have worked here since 1990.
PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR
She has lived here for twenty years.
We have taught at this school for a long time.
Alice has been married forthree months.
They have been at the hotel for a week.
PRESENT PERFECT WITH SINCE
She has lived here since 1980.
We have taught at this school since 1965.
Alice has been married since March 2nd.
They have been at the hotel since last Tuesday.
ALREADY
Already refers to an action that has happened at an unspecified time before now. It suggests that there is no need for repetition.
EXAMPLES
I've already drunk three coffees this morning. (= and you're offering me another one!)
Don't write to John, I've already done it.

It is also used in questions:
Have you already written to John?
Has she finished her homework already?

Already can be placed before the main verb (past participle) or at the end of the sentence:
I have already been to Tokyo.
I have been to Tokyo already.

YET

Yet is used in negative statements and questions, to mean (not) in the period of time between before now and now, (not) up to and including the present.Yet is usually placed at the end of the sentence.
EXAMPLES
Have you met Judy yet?
I haven't visited the Tate Gallery yet
Has he arrived yet?
They haven't eaten yet

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