Grammar Exercise: Since or For (Present Perfect Simple and Continuous)

Since or For Exercise with Answers

Grammar Exercise – Since or For

Do the exercise below on since or for and click the button to check your answers.

(Before doing the exercises, you may want to read the lesson on the present perfect and the present perfect continuous)

Since or For Exercise

Choose the correct answer: since or for?

  1. I have lived in London three years.
  2. Leila has been a nurse 1999.
  3. We haven't met our last year at high school.
  4. I have been teaching a long time.
  5. The kids have been on vacation two weeks.
  6. What have you been doing you left your last job?
  7. He has had his new laptop a month.
  8. Where have you been working you had your master's degree?
  9. The shop has been closed Monday.
  10. He has known her they were five years old.
Video Quiz: Since Vs. For with the Present Perfect

Recap: Use of Since and For in the Present Perfect

Recap
  • Since is used with a starting point in time (e.g., since Monday, since 1999).
  • For is used with a duration of time (e.g., for three years, for a long time).
  • Both are common in the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous.

👉 Try more for and since exercises with answers below to test your understanding and master their use.

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