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An ending that closes the period makes it finished time, so the gap needs the Past Simple. Note that since itself never goes with the Past Simple.",[],{"items":46,"categories":61},[47,50,52,54,57,59],{"text":48,"category":49},"for five years, then left","Past Simple: lived",{"text":51,"category":49},"for a year in 2014",{"text":53,"category":49},"from 2010 to 2015",{"text":55,"category":56},"for five years now","Present Perfect: has lived",{"text":58,"category":56},"since 2021",{"text":60,"category":56},"since last summer",[49,56],{"id":63,"sentenceTemplate":64,"displayOrder":65,"explanation":66,"blanks":67,"payload":68},"01a01413-a582-76f6-8d44-95a5325e1241","In Standard British English, sort each time word by the tense that normally goes with it.",2,"In Standard British English, just, already and yet present an action as connected to now, so they take the Present Perfect; American English often uses the Past Simple with them instead. A word that names a finished past moment takes the Past Simple in both varieties.",[],{"items":69,"categories":82},[70,72,74,76,78,80],{"text":71,"category":31},"just",{"text":73,"category":31},"already",{"text":75,"category":31},"yet",{"text":77,"category":22},"last winter",{"text":79,"category":22},"in 2019",{"text":81,"category":22},"at 7 p.m. yesterday",[22,31],{"id":84,"sentenceTemplate":85,"displayOrder":86,"explanation":87,"blanks":88,"payload":89},"01a01413-a582-7746-8d44-95a532d046b0","Sara is twenty-four and is listing every trip she has made up to now. Complete 'Sara ___ to Japan' with each ending and sort it by the tense the sentence needs.",3,"Choose the Present Perfect (has been) when the ending counts experience up to now or names a period that is still open. 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