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For or Since?
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For
is used for general periods of time:
2 hours, three days, one month.
Since
is used for a specific time:
1998, January, last week, one month ago.
I have studied English......
FOR
two months.
SINCE
January.
SINCE
the beginning of the year.
FOR
about 10 minutes.
SINCE
I was a child in elementary school.
FOR
six weeks.
FOR
a long time.
FOR
three days.
SINCE
I was 14 years old.
SINCE
a year ago.
FOR
a year.
FOR
twelve days.
SINCE
1997.
SINCE
I came to America.
FOR
3 hours a day, for the last two years.
SINCE
April
FOR
five weeks.
SINCE
the beginning of the semester.
SINCE
this class started.
SINCE
two weeks ago.
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