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You Use If You Don't Have To Calculate The Period of Time, Because You Have It in The Sentence

The document discusses the proper uses of the words "for" and "since" when indicating periods of time. It states that "for" should be used if the specific period is provided, like "for two months," because the period does not need to be calculated. "Since" should be used if only the starting point is provided, like "since 1975," because the period must be calculated by finding the difference between the starting point and current year. It then provides examples of sentences with blanks to be filled in with either "for" or "since," and explains the rules for determining which preposition to use.

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You Use If You Don't Have To Calculate The Period of Time, Because You Have It in The Sentence

The document discusses the proper uses of the words "for" and "since" when indicating periods of time. It states that "for" should be used if the specific period is provided, like "for two months," because the period does not need to be calculated. "Since" should be used if only the starting point is provided, like "since 1975," because the period must be calculated by finding the difference between the starting point and current year. It then provides examples of sentences with blanks to be filled in with either "for" or "since," and explains the rules for determining which preposition to use.

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For and Since

- You use FOR if you don't have to calculate the period of


time, because you have it in the sentence :
I have lived here FOR two months ( you don't have to
calculate, you know the period is "two months" )
- You use SINCE if you have to calculate the period of time,
because you only have the starting point
:
I have lived here SINCE 1975 ( you have to calculate now:
if you came in 1975 - the starting point - and now it is 2009,
then 2009-1975 = 24 years

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I have been living in New York ________________1 year


I haven't seen you ___________________a week
I have been waiting _________________________12.30
I've lived here _________________5 years.
I've lived here ___________________2003
________________she came here I've been very nervous
She has been married ______________________ten years
She has been a doctor ____________________1998
I have been living in Valencia ___________________last
June
10.
I haven't seen you _______________________last
week
11.
Yesterday I studied ___________________three hours
12.
She
has
been
studying
English_________________two months
13.
She
has
been
studying
English__________________last January
14.
She
has
been
studying
English___________________12.00
15.
She has been studying English_______________your
birthday
16.
She
has
been
studying
English__________________two hours
17.
She has been studying English________________six
minutes

18.
She has been studying English__________________a
long time
19.
I've been working here ____________________the
last two years.
20.
I have loved you _______________________the first
time I saw you

Since - if the starting point is given (two o'clock, last


Friday, 1998)
for - if the period of time is given (twenty minutes,
two days, one year)
I have been waiting _________________4 o'clock.
Sue has only been waiting ________________20 minutes.
Tim
and
Tina
have
been
learning
English ____________________six years.
Fred
and
Frida
have
been
learning
French _________________1998.
Joe
and
Josephine
have
been
going
out
together _______________Valentine's Day.
I haven't been on holiday ______________________last July.
Mary has been saving her money ___________________many
years.
last weekend
I
haven't
eaten
ten seconds
anything ____________
Christmas
Eve
_
______________breakfa
a
decade
s
t.
I finished school
You
have
been
a couple of days
watching
my birthday
TV ___________________
a
long
time
_
_____________hours.
ten centuries
We have been living
the 70s
here _________________
I
was
a
boy
_
____________2 months.
August
the last month
fifteen years
the accident
then
we bought this house
last month
I met you

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