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Tanja S Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

past forms

Is there any difference between these two sentences?Are they both gramatically correct?

"Pauline has changed a lot.She DIDN't ALWAYS LOOK like that." and
"Pauline has changed a lot. She DIDN'T USE TO LOOK LIKE THAT always".
  

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Tanja S "Pauline has changed a lot. " Only this one is correct. You’d have to get rid of always to correct the other one.

— RandomGuy

  • Tanja S "Pauline has changed a lot.
  • " Only this one is correct.
  • You’d have to get rid of always to correct the other one.
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Tanja S"Pauline has changed a lot. She didn’t always look like that."
Only this one is correct. You’d have to get rid of always to correct the other one.
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Aspara Gus Tanja S"Pauline has changed a lot. She didn’t always look like that."Only this one is correct. You’d have to get rid of always to correct the other one.
I'm not so sure. If she used to look like that only sometimes, then we can have:

She didn't ALWAYS used to....
She didn't used to ALWAYS....
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