{"id":295,"date":"2025-07-28T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/2025\/07\/28\/how-long-have-you-been-learning-english-for-or-since-question-i-have-been-studying-english-_-two-years\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:06:27","slug":"how-long-have-you-been-learning-english-for-or-since-question-i-have-been-studying-english-_-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/how-long-have-you-been-learning-english-for-or-since-question-i-have-been-studying-english-_-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"How long have you been learning English? &#8216;For&#8217; or &#8216;Since&#8217;?&#8221; Question: &#8220;I have been studying English\u00a0_\u00a0two\u00a0years."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I have been studying English for two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer: for<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use &#8220;for&#8221; to talk about a period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for two years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for five minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for a long time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use &#8220;since&#8221; to talk about the starting point of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>since 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>since Monday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>since&nbsp;I&nbsp;was&nbsp;a&nbsp;child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have been studying English for two years.&#8221; Answer: for Explanation: Use &#8220;for&#8221; to talk about a period of time. Examples: for two years for five minutes for a long time Use &#8220;since&#8221; to talk about the starting point of the time. Examples: since 2021 since Monday since&nbsp;I&nbsp;was&nbsp;a&nbsp;child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Editor","author_link":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/author\/editor\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/category\/daily-tips\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Tips<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"&#8220;I have been studying English for two years.&#8221; Answer: for Explanation: Use &#8220;for&#8221; to talk about a period of time. Examples: for two years for five minutes for a long time Use &#8220;since&#8221; to talk about the starting point of the time. Examples: since 2021 since Monday since&nbsp;I&nbsp;was&nbsp;a&nbsp;child","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/school.kanavu.org\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}