What are the uses of 'Just'
The word 'Just' has various uses and meanings:(1) 'Just' is used as an adverb of time with the present perfect tense:
The bell has just rung.
Here 'just' means 'a very short time ago.'
(2) Just = Exactly
This will be just the place.
The weather is just right, not too hot, not too cold.
(3) Just = Only
Just a minute.
There is just one apple left.
(4) Just = After a short time
The train is just going to start.
(5) Just = Approximately
It is just about ten o'clock.
Some more examples -
1. Every thing happened just as you said it would.
2. I was just leaving the house when you came.
3. Surely you are not serious. You are just joking.
4. This present is just what I was wanting.
5.My grandmother is just about ninety years old.
