1 For example, Monday - 1 hour, Tuesday - 1 1/2 hours, Wednesday - 1/2 hour, etc. I would be inclined to ask 'Did you do all your homework yet?'. Decide how much time you have available for homework after school for each day of the week. Children who need to be asked tend to find ways to weasel out and answer ambiguously, so the less ambiguous the question, the better. We always use do with activities and make with objects that are being made. Homework is not in any way special in this respect. There is still some 'wiggle room', however. Without further ado, the correct verb to use with homework is do, not make: correct I did my homework yesterday. The question is really whether the children's homework is complete, not whether it has been worked on, and 'Did you do your homework yet?' is the best way to ask this. 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.

Do your homework