{"id":73426,"date":"2020-03-24T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73426"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:19:55","slug":"since-for-ago-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/since-for-ago-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Since, For, Ago, Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Since, for, ago and before<\/h2>\n<p>Since, when used with the present perfect tense, means from a point or period of time in the past up to now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have lived here\u00a0<b>since my childhood<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>I haven\u2019t seen him\u00a0<b>since last week<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>India has made tremendous progress\u00a0<b>since the dawn of independence<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>For<\/h3>\n<p><b>For<\/b>, when used with the present perfect tense, refers to a period of time up to now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have lived here\u00a0<b>for twelve years<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>He has been working here\u00a0<b>for three years now<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>The strike has continued\u00a0<b>for two weeks<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Ago<\/h3>\n<p><b>Ago\u00a0<\/b>is used when you date back from now to a point of time in the past.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was two years\u00a0<b>ago\u00a0<\/b>that I first met Alice.<\/li>\n<li>I saw him two months\u00a0<b>ago<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Before<\/h3>\n<p><b>Before<\/b>\u00a0is used when you date back from any point of time in the past or future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The roof must be repaired\u00a0<b>before<\/b>\u00a0the rain starts.<\/li>\n<li>I think I have seen him\u00a0<b>before<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since, for, ago and before Since, when used with the present perfect tense, means from a point or period of time in the past up to now. I have lived here\u00a0since my childhood. I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1227,1225,1228,1282,280,2039,2038],"class_list":["post-73426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-ago","tag-ago-vs-before","tag-before","tag-for","tag-since","tag-since-or-for","tag-since-vs-for"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73427,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426\/revisions\/73427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}