- You use FOR if you don't have to calculate the period of time, because you have it in the sentence

: I have lived here FOR two months ( you don't have to calculate, you know the period is "two months" ) - You use SINCE if you have to calculate the period of time, because you only have the starting point : I have lived here SINCE 1975 ( you have to calculate now: if you came in 1975 - the starting point - and now it is 2009, then 20091975 = 24 years )

Now fill the gaps with FOR or SINCE:

1. I have been living inNew York 2. I haven't seen you 3. I have been waiting 4. I've lived here 6. 5. I've lived here

1 year

a week 12:30. 2003 ten years 1998 last june 5 years.

she came here I've been very nervous

7. She has been married

8. She has been a doctor 9. I have been living inValencia 10. I haven't seen you 11. Yesterday I studied

last week three hours two months

12. She has been studying English

13. She has been studying English 14. She has been studying English 15. She has been studying English 16. She has been studying English 17. She has been studying English 18. She has been studying English 19. I've been loving you 20. I have loved you

last January 12.00 your birthday two hours six minutes a long time

all my life the first time I saw you