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SINCE VS. FOR
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SINCE VS. FOR
is used with perfect tenses also can be used with simple past
is used only with perfect tenses
When we measure the duration of something
- FOR + starting point
- Example: I have worked here for thirty years
- for ten minutes
- for eight hours
- for a week
- for two years
- for a long time
- for a century
- Example: I have worked here for thirty years
- FOR + starting point
When something started in the past and continues until now
- SINCE + a period of time
- Example: I have worked here since 1990
- since five o'clock
- since yesterday
- since last week
- since this morning
- since 1990
- since Wednesday
- Example: I have worked here since 1990
- SINCE + a period of time
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- Mind Map on SINCE VS. FOR, created by Laura Beatriz Quintero Cano on 28/04/2020.
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