{"id":73472,"date":"2020-03-26T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73472"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:30:48","slug":"since-as-an-adverb-and-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/since-as-an-adverb-and-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Since As An Adverb And Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Since as an adverb<\/h3>\n<p>Since\u00a0is an\u00a0<b>adverb of time<\/b>\u00a0commonly used with the\u00a0<b>present perfect<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>present perfect continuous tense<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I haven\u2019t seen him\u00a0<b>since last week<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>It has been raining\u00a0<b>since morning<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>I have been working\u00a0<b>since lunchtime<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>I have been waiting for the parcel\u00a0<b>since Tuesday<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Since<\/b>\u00a0can also mean \u2018between some time in the past and the present time\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last Sunday he went for a drive and has not been seen\u00a0<b>since<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Since<\/b>\u00a0can also be used with\u00a0<b>past perfect tenses<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It took me years to get over my break up with Susie. We had been seeing each other\u00a0<b>since our university days<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Difference between since and for<\/h3>\n<p><b>Since<\/b>\u00a0is used with a point of time in the past.\u00a0For indicates duration.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been raining\u00a0<b>since morning<\/b>. (NOT It has been raining since four hours.)<\/li>\n<li>It has been raining\u00a0<b>for four hours<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Since as a preposition<\/h3>\n<p>When\u00a0<b>since\u00a0<\/b>is used as a preposition, present and past tenses are also possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I haven\u2019t met her\u00a0<b>since her marriage<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Things weren\u2019t going so well\u00a0<b>since his father\u2019s death<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>She isn\u2019t doing very well<b>\u00a0since her operation<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Since as a conjunction<\/h3>\n<p><b>Since<\/b>\u00a0can also be used as a\u00a0<b>subordinating conjunction<\/b>. We can use perfect or past tenses in the\u00a0<b>since-clause<\/b>. A\u00a0since-clause\u00a0can show cause or time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Since he hadn\u2019t paid the bill<\/b>, his electricity was cut off.<\/li>\n<li><b>Since he has apologized<\/b>, we will not take any further actions against him.<\/li>\n<li><b>Since we have no money<\/b>, we can\u2019t buy anything.<\/li>\n<li>I have admired him\u00a0<b>since I was a boy<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>I haven\u2019t seen them\u00a0<b>since we moved to Mumbai<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since as an adverb Since\u00a0is an\u00a0adverb of time\u00a0commonly used with the\u00a0present perfect\u00a0or\u00a0present perfect continuous tense. I haven\u2019t seen him\u00a0since last week. It has been raining\u00a0since morning. I have been working\u00a0since lunchtime. I have been&#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":[280,2288,2289],"class_list":["post-73472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-since","tag-since-as-adverb","tag-since-as-conjunction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472","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=73472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73473,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73472\/revisions\/73473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}