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EyeSeeYou Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

I USED to go to the beach

0 How do you use the pattern "used to" in the interrogative form? 02br
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00Is it correct to ask: Did you use to play tennis when you were a child? 02br
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0 Yes it is. 02br 00When you parse this sentence, you'll notice that in this case 'to' belongs to 'playing tennis', forming 'to play tennis'. 02br 00In the form 'being used to something', 'to' functions as a preposition.

  • 0 Yes it is.
  • 02br 00When you parse this sentence, you'll notice that in this case 'to' belongs to 'playing tennis', forming 'to play tennis'.
  • 02br 00In the form 'being used to something', 'to' functions as a preposition.
  • After prepositions, you should always use the -ing form of the following verb.
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0 Yes it is. 02br
00When you parse this sentence, you'll notice that in this case 'to' belongs to 'playing tennis', forming 'to play tennis'. 02br
00In the form 'being used to something', 'to' functions as a preposition. After prepositions, you should always use the -ing form of the following verb. 02br
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00e.g. 02br
00Did you use to pl
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0 To vince, 02br
00Can you tell me the difference between the following pairs of sentences:- 02br
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00a) 02br
00i) Did you use to play tennis as a child? 02br
00ii) Were you used to playing tennis as a child? 02br
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00b) 02br
00i) Did you use chopsticks as a child? 02br
00ii) Were you used
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0 Hello icu 02br
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00How do you use the pattern "used to" in the interrogative form? 12br
10Is it correct to ask: Did you use to play tennis when you were a child? 12blockquote
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00This is fine. Perhaps less often, you would find: 02br
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001. Used you to play tennis, as a child? 02br
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0 MrP already explained it: 02br
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00This use of 'used to' is (as you probably already know) different from 'used to = accustomed to'.12blockquote
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00In sentences 2 (of both a and b), 'used to' refers to 'being accustomed to'. You could also write it like this: 02br
00a) Were you accustomed to playing

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