In fact, it is this latter sentence that would seem a little awkward to me with a redundant "yet" added. "Did you do your homework?" (without "yet") suggests the speaker expected the children to have done their homework at some agreed upon or expected time (or by some agreed upon or expected time).īut with "yet", it means (almost) the same as "Have you done your homework?". Though no family I know treats daily interactions within the family as formal occasions, I would not claim the use of simple past tense with "yet" unsuitable for formal occasions. Click to expand.I agree with Miss Julie on this one.
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