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Studv this example situation:
[eu years ago
Di ane doesn't travel much rhese days.
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She prefers tO s tay a t home.
.',. But she used to t ravel a 10L
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- 1 : .0 She used to go away tWO or three times ayear. .
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tC l'( .\\ She used to rravel a lot,
=
she travelled a lo regularlv ID
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the pasr, but she doesri't do tl11S any more.
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': . _ Sometbing used to happen
=
ir happened regularly in the p ast, bur no longer happens:
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1 used to play tennis a lot, but 1 don'r play very often now,
.
J < < ' :; : ; . ; : i ' : ' . ; i :. [ ) a vld used to
spend a lot of mo eyo:, clothes, These days h e c an 't aHo rd
ir.
: ;- ' ; , . : . . . , . . , . . : .v : ,. . . .. . [ ) Do you
go to the cinema much? 'Not now, bur 1 used to.' = 1 used
to
gol
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We also use used to ... for rhings that were true, bur are not
true any more:
i: This building is now a furn.i tu re s hop. Ir used to be a
cinema.
O 1 used to think Mark was unfriendly, bur now 1 realise he's a
very nic e per sono
O I' ve starred drinking tea recendy. 1 never used ro like
it
before.
O Nicole used to have very long hair when she was a child,
'] used ro do something' i s p ase . There is no present form.
You cannor say '1 use
to
do',
To talk about the present, use rhe present simple (1 do).
Compare:
past I
he used tO play
1
I
we used to live
I
rhere used to be
present he plays I we li ve 1 there is
o We used to live in a small village, bur now we live in
London.
[) There used to be four c inemas in the town. Now there is only
one.
The normal question form is did (you) use to .,.
?:
[) Did you use to eat a l ot of sweers when you were a
child?
The negative form is didn't use tO ... (used not ro ... is also
possible}:
O
1
didn't use to like hirn. (or I used not ro like him.)
Compare] used to do and 1 was doing:
[) 1
used ro watch TV a
lot.
=
1
watched TV regularly in
the past,
bur
1
no longer do this)
O 1was watching TV when Mike called. = 1 was in the middle of
watching TV)
Do not confuse 1 used ro do and 1 am used to doing (see Unir
61). The structures and meanings
are differenr:
':: 1 used ro live alone. = 1 lived alone in the past, but I no
longer live alone.)
[ am used to lil'illg alone. (= 1 live alone, and 1 don', find
ir srrange or difficulr because
I've been living alo ne for some time.)
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Past continuous
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was doing) Un it 5 )'iould = used to) Unit 36
Be/gel used to (doing) something Unit 61 ...
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18.1 Complete the sentences with use(d) to + a suitable
verbo
Diane doesri'r travel much now. She ".s. P :r.'. ':: a lor, bur
she prefers to s ta
y
at home
rhese days.
2 Liz. . a motorbike, bur last year she sold i r a nd bought a
caro
We carne ro live in London a few years ago We .. in Leeds.
4 1 rarely eat ice-crearn now, but I . .. it when 1 wa s a ch
ild.
5 jirn . .. m)' best friend, bur we areri't good friends any
longer .
6 Ir onlv takes me abour 40 minures tO ger ro work now thar rhe
new road is open. Ir
more than an hour.
7 There
a
hotel near the airporr, but it closed a long time ago .
8 Wh en you lived in New York, . .. to the rheatre very
often?
18.2 Mat t changed his life style. He s topped doing some things
and started doing other things:
{
studying hard {Sleeping late
He stopped going to bed early He started going Out in
rhe
evening
running three miles eve ry morning spending
a
lar o f mone y
Write sentences about Matt with used to and didn't use to.
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s. .' .r.,
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a hotel
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t
receptionist l '
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\ r Iplay the plano
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Ive got lots \ /
offnends I
t/",I never read
1
I'm very0azY. "-( paper s
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I dont
I don t like \ drink tea. 1
1
ch eese. I
I've got a dogo i
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to a lo of parties. :
FIV Y RS GO
Now write sentences about how Karen has changed. Use used to
didn t use to never used to
in the fi rst part of your sentence.
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She used .
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but
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bur .
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Additional exercise 9 (page 307)
