NEW SANCTIONS The United Nations Security council voted to impose the most punishing sanctions yet on North Korea.
Question: what does “yet” function in the sentence? Grammatically and semantically?
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Sign up to join this communityNEW SANCTIONS The United Nations Security council voted to impose the most punishing sanctions yet on North Korea.
Question: what does “yet” function in the sentence? Grammatically and semantically?
It's an adverb and, in this sense, it means "thus far".