For and since are prepositions that indicate periods of time. For is used with a period of time like "for one second" or "for five days." Since is used with a specific time point, such as "since last week" or "since 1945." The document provides examples of how to use for and since correctly in expressions of time, distinguishing that for is not used when the time expression starts with all, and instead just the time expression is used, like "It has rained all day."
For and since are prepositions that indicate periods of time. For is used with a period of time like "for one second" or "for five days." Since is used with a specific time point, such as "since last week" or "since 1945." The document provides examples of how to use for and since correctly in expressions of time, distinguishing that for is not used when the time expression starts with all, and instead just the time expression is used, like "It has rained all day."
For and since are prepositions that indicate periods of time. For is used with a period of time like "for one second" or "for five days." Since is used with a specific time point, such as "since last week" or "since 1945." The document provides examples of how to use for and since correctly in expressions of time, distinguishing that for is not used when the time expression starts with all, and instead just the time expression is used, like "It has rained all day."
For and since are the most common words we use when we want to say how long the period of time has been.
1. We use for with a period of time:
For one second, three minutes, two hours, five days, seven weeks, two months, three years, a long time, the whole of my life, ages. We don't use for in expressions beginning with all, all my life, all morning, all day. We just use the time expression without since or for: It has rained all day.
2. We use since with a specific time:
Since last week, two years ago, my birthday, 1945, June, the beginning of the summer, the day I arrived, I started in this job. Present perfect VS Simple past Zero and first conditionals