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PRESENT PERFECT:

FOR and SINCE

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Material selected by Teacher Danitza

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  1. Present Perfect (review)

a) They have moved into a new apartment.

b) Have you ever visited Mexico?

  • The present perfect expresses that something happened (or never
  • The exact time is not important and not mentioned.

happened) before now, at an unspecified time in the past.

(time?)

X

X

X

X

X

X

  • The present perfect also expresses the repetition of an activity before now.

c) We have had four tests so far this semester.

The exact time of each repetition is not important.

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X

X

  • We use since to express the beginning of the period of time of an event.
  • We use for to express the length (duration) of this event.

2. Since or For

SINCE

FOR

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He has studied since two o’clock.

X

X

SINCE

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He has studied for two hours and fifteen minutes.

X

X

FOR

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X

X

SINCE

He has been here since six o´clock.

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He has been here for about two hours.

X

X

FOR

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He has had his cowboy doll since he was a young kid.

He has had his cowboy doll for more than eleven years.