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| Question | Answer |
| FOR | For The preposition "for" is used to express the duration of an action, the period of an action or an event. |
| .example “I’ve lived here for 8 months”. “She was waiting for him for five years”. “We haven’t seen each other for a long time” | TIME present: i go on holidays for two weeks every summer past: when i was sixteen, i stayed in london for two months future: While i am in the USA, i will be in new york for two days |
| SINCE | The preposition "since" is used to indicate a moment from which the action continues. It is usually used in the perfect tenses. |
| SINCE As this period of time, which began at a specific time in the past, continues into the present, we can only use "since" with the perfect tense | example: present perfect I have been here since 5 o'clock and I am getting tired. I had been working since 5 o'clock and I was getting tired. |
| AGO | “Ago” refers to a time in the past or a time before the current one and goes to the end of the sentence |
| AGO “It translates as “hace” in Spanish and is used with the simple past tense. | Example Richard finished university three years ago. I called you ten minutes ago. She quit smoking a long time ago. |
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