Although he's got a good job now, he yet complains.
Does the sentence sound natural? When "yet" is used as an adverb, can "although" and "yet" appear in the same sentence?
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[Although/Even though] he's got several bad days in a row, he hasn't complained yet. Not yet. Not just yet.– Damkerng T.Commented Aug 31, 2014 at 17:14
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@DamkerngT. I suspect OP wants to use yet as a conjunction and not as an adverb in their sentence.– NoneCommented Aug 31, 2014 at 17:32
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@Laure But the OP wrote When "yet" is used as a adverb, ...– Damkerng T.Commented Aug 31, 2014 at 17:35
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@DamkerngT. sorry, I missed it! - seemed so illogical. But you're right I've added something to my answer.– NoneCommented Aug 31, 2014 at 17:46
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Perhaps: "Although he's got a good job now, he yet still complains."– F.E.Commented Aug 31, 2014 at 17:57
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It doesn't sound natural at all. Even if you wrote:
*Although he's got a good job now, yet he complains.
which would be a more natural place for yet.
The use of though and yet seem to be redundant here, and I would only use one or the other:
He's got a good job now, yet he complains.
Although he's got a good job now, he complains.
He complains although he's got a good job now.
But here I was using yet as a conjunction.
If you want to use it as an adverb - which introduces a reference to time - then Damkerng's answer is the right one.
Although he's got a good job now, he hasn't complained yet.
This last sentence is grammatically correct but its meaning is illogical, it is difficult to imagine someone who has a good job complaining.
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Also "[Although/Even though] he's got a good job now, he still complains." and "He still complains [even though/although] he's got a good job now."– ಠ_ಠCommented Aug 31, 2014 at 14:29
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@ಠ_ಠ which has a slightly different meaning because "still" here would mean "he continues to complain" and not "nevertheless" (which could be another possibility) as with "yet" or "although", .– NoneCommented Aug 31, 2014 at 14:32
No, that does not natural. I had already typed "but the words can sound natural in the same sentence", and then I racked my brains to come up with an example. After five minutes of trying, I couldn't come up with a natural sounding sentence containing both words. Hmm
In this example, you should say, "Although he has done a good job, he still complains.
"Yet" and "still are sometimes treated as synonyms. In this case, they are not.
That is, "still" works here and "yet" does not.
