Help me out

The first sentence is correct: to be used to doING something
The second sounds akward to me; if ever said, it would mean "I am used to work (noun) but to nothing else. But I don't think you would EVER say it!
Hope it helps!

Only the first one is English.

Here are the contrasts:

Present: I am used to working alone. (yooss too)
Past: I was used to working alone. (yooss too)

Present: I (always) work alone.
Past: I (always) used to work alone. (yooss too) OR I (always) worked alone.

Present: This knife is always used to cut bread. (yoozd too)
Past: Th

Past: I (always) worked alone.
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Can I simply interchange it with\by [what's right?] "I've awlays worked alone"?
Or I cannot put perfect with alway anyway?


This knife is always used to cut bread
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Shouldn't it have been "for cutting bread"?
used to cut.
is used to cutting.

btw, what do "yooss too" and "yoozd too" mean? o_

Last question first: "yooss too" and "yoozd too" are very primitive pronunciation guides, the main idea being that the "sed" of "used" is pronouned with the "s"-sound in certain idioms.

"I always worked alone" does not include the present. The period of working alone may have ended quite a long time before we say the sentence.

Fifteen years ago I worked as a news reporter.

Concerning the bread-cutting:
If we talk about a person, I presume the followings are OK:
I used to cut bread.
I am used to cutting bread

Those, I suppose aren't :
I used to cutting..
I am used to cut...

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If we talk about a knife: (The OK ones)
This knife is used for cutting bread.
This knife used to cut bread.

Corre

Anyone?

Sorry to have missed you, Mav.

Correct:

I used to cut bread. (= I was formerly a baker)
I am used to cutting bread. (= I cut bread frequently)

This knife is used for cutting bread. (= the knife's function is bread-cutting)
This knife used to cut bread. (= it formerly cut bread)

This knife is used to cut bread. (= its function is bread-cutting)

I'd like to add that when you use "S + used to + infinitive" you want to express a contrast with the past: S regularly did something in the past, but he/she doesn't do it anymore.

This knife is used to cut bread. (= its function is bread-cutting)
This knife is used for cutting bread. (= the knife's function is bread-cutting)
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Those are the same, right?
1) The former one somewhat implies that there's someone who uses it, doesn't it?

2) So if I have an inanimate subject, both the following are OK?
(inanimate)S + is u

I don't understand how this "(inanimate)S + is used " is correct?