With the warm, sunny weather we are having in New York City this week, I started wondering just how much rain have we had this June. Too much! Let’s see how we can put that into words, shall we?
You can say, “It’s been raining since last weekend” or “It’s been raining for 4 days.” Well, what is the difference?
We use since when we talk about a specific point in time. Here are some examples:
- I’ve been studying English at GEOS since January.
- I haven’t seen Sarah since Monday.
- My mom has been living in the same house since 1965.
We use for when we talk about a time period. Here are some examples:
- I’ve been studying TOEFL at GEOS for three months
- I haven’t seen Sarah for 3 days.
- My mom has been living in the same house for 44 years.
That’s a long time, don’t you think? Well, that’s all the time we have for today’s one point lesson. Thanks for joining me and please feel free to comment or ask questions.
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Comment by SergeyNikolaev — July 31, 2009 @ 2:18 am
Hi, I think your articles are really helpfull, I’m going to New York in August to atending an English course by GEOS, I hope I’m gonna have fun.
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Hi Sergey. I’m from New York. How about you?
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I don’t get it, what do you mean by the 3rd paragraph?
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Comment by VitalikGromovss — August 8, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
Hi Lena,
In the 3rd paragraph we are showing the difference between direct questions, and tag questions. Here is another example. If I ask, “Do you know Brian?” I do not know if you know him. Maybe we never talked about Brian before. If I ask this way, ” You know Brian, don’t you?” it is because I think yuou do know him and I am just trying to check. Does this help?
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I think it’s wonderful this course, with 4 weeks to get enough to get good level of English nun (B2)?
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Hello Jimmy. Thank you for your comment. You cna do a lot in 4 weeks at our school. Are you in New york now?
Comment by GEOS NYC — August 23, 2009 @ 9:59 am
Браво, мне кажется, это замечательная фраза…
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