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For or Since

For is used for general periods of time - 2 hours, three days, one month.
Since is used for a specific time - 1998, January, last week, one month ago.

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I have studied English......

  1. two months.
  2. January.
  3. the beginning of the year.
  4. about 10 minutes.
  5. I was a child in elementary school.
  6. six weeks.
  7. a long time.
  8. three days.
  9. I was 14 years old.
  10. a year ago.
  11. a year.
  12. twelve days.
  13. 1997.
  14. I came to America.
  15. 3 hours a day for two years.

Copyright (C) 1998 by Kaye Mastin Mallory
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.