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Malak Albash Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

For years VS for ages

Hi everyone ^_^
I wanna know the difference between: for years and for ages
is there any difference?

  

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We say wanna but we write want to . for years This is an objective term. It usually means literally for two or more years .

— Clive

  • We say wanna but we write want to .
  • for years This is an objective term.
  • It usually means literally for two or more years .
  • for ages This is a subjective term.
  • The speaker means for what seems to me to be a long time .
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We say wanna but we write want to.


for years This is an objective term. It usually means literally for two or more years.

for ages This is a subjective term. The speaker means for what seems to me to be a long time. It could be eg 5 minutes, eg 5 years.

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