Email – writing an apology
Hello again,
It’s a glorious Spring day here in England. I have my office window open and there’s a bird outside that has been trying to get through for the last five hours. It succeeded once and then flew straight back out and started trying again. I’m sure there’s a lesson there for language learners 
Today we’re going to do some exercises to practise ‘apologies’ in an email. You’ll find the exercises here:
http://www.better-english-test.com/unit3/index.html
I’m going to put up a listening version of the letter too. Please check out www.grammar-teacher.com in a couple of days for more details on that.
Have a nice week.
Pearson
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I am not sure whether we can use ‘last’ in the following sentence:
There’s a bird outside of my office window and it has been trying to get through it for the last five hours.
Isn’t it better to say ‘for five hours’ or ’since five hours ago.’ because the bird is still trying to get through. Last shows a complete period of time in the past, doesn’t it?
I wonder if you could comment about it.
@ Ebdaal I’m afraid you are completely wrong about ‘last’ . It doesn’t necessarily imply a finished period of time.
I’ve been standing here for the last ten minutes.
I’ve been considering buying a new car for the last twelve months.
’since five hours ago’ makes no sense at all.