Used to
&
Would
"Used to + Infinitive"
expresses past states or actions that don’t happen anymore.
To talk about past actions, habits or situations
(apart from Past tenses)
we may use constructions
"used to"
&
"would"
...
For example:
My uncle
used to smoke
a lot but he gave it up a few years ago.
Did
you
use to go
swimming when you were at school?
We use
"Would + Infinitive"
to talk about regularly repeated past actions.
For example:
My little sister
would cry
every time she got hungry.
My teacher
would
always
say
“Sit down and keep silence!”
THANK
YOU
FOR
BEING
SOOO
ATTENTIVE!
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Often either
"would"
or
"used to"
is possible.
Here,
both
of these sentences are possible:
I
would
listen to music at night.
I
used to
listen to music at night.
However, only
"used to"
is possible when we talk about past states.
We
used to
live in Aktobe when I was a kid.
(Correct)
We
would
live in Aktobe when I was a kid.
(Wrong)
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Used to & Would
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