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Oh here is our castle now Still

Still he reflected that he would be unable to get out, and in the morning he could go for the constable.

  • heart misses a beat (stands still)
  • hold still
  • jury is still out
  • keep quiet (still)
  • quiet (still) as a mouse

History and Etymology for still

M >stille, from Old English; still to Old High German stilli still and perhaps to Old English steall stall — still at stall

  1. a still photograph, esp of a scene from a motion-picture film
  2. ( as modifier ) a still camera

You can use still in a negative clause for emphasis. Still goes in front of the first auxiliary verb in the clause.

Don't use 'still' in a negative clause simply to say that something has not happened up to the still time. The word you use is yet. Yet goes after not or at the end of the clause.

I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.

  • If there is no auxiliary verb, you put still in still of the verb, unless the verb is be.

Don't use 'still' with this meaning at the beginning of a sentence. Don't say, for example ' Still we have a lot to do '.


by danielle6smith | 2019-12-17 05:29