Hey, fellas! Ayo hari ini kita bahas penggunaan “for” dan “since”.
Keduanya dipakai dalam kalimat Present Perfect dan Present Perfect Progressive Tense.
FOR digunakan untuk menunjukkan lama waktu sebuah kegiatan/pekerjaan. For = selama. Maka dari itu FOR diikuti dengan durasi.
Contoh (durasi): two hours (dua jam), five years (lima tahun), a couple of days (beberapa hari), etc.
SINCE digunakan untuk menunjukkan waktu/saat suatu kegiatan/pekerjaan dimulai. Since = sejak. SINCE diikuti dengan keterangan waktu yang jelas.
Contoh (sejak): 1999 (tahun 1999), two years ago (dua tahun yang lalu), since you last came (sejak waktu/terakhir kali kau datang), etc.
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PRACTICE
- My dog hasn’t eaten anything ….. Thursday.
- We have been planning this trip ….. last year.
- I haven’t seen him ….. several days.
- They’ve been best friends ….. high school.
- We’ve been waiting here ….. two hours.
- It has been raining heavily ….. last night.
- They’ve occupied the same house ….. five years.
- She has been working there ….. she was graduated from the university.
- We have been discussing this ….. two years ago.
- They’ve been expecting you … a while.
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ANSWER
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Compiled and written by @Miss_Qiak at @EnglishTips4U on November 20, 2011
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