Simple Past Variances

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Hi,Can anybody please let me know the difference between the two sentences below:When I was young, I would play football every SaturdayWhen I was young, I used to play football every SaturdayAre they both same? Are they both grammatically right?Thanks in advance.

Rover_KE · Accepted Answer

Add full stops to make them both grammatically correct.

They mean the same but the second is by far the more natural-sounding.

Rover

Ckuchimanchi · Answer

Thanks Rover. I've another question related to this. Is the below sentence right?

Last year, I used to study very hard.

I'm thinking it is right because, here the speaker is trying to view study as a recurring/habitual event, spread across the whole year (which is past).

If he were to consider it as one single event, he would have said:

Last year, I studied hard.

However, the below link considers the former to be wrong:

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/past1c.html

Can you please clarify the same?

Note: If time reference in sentences using "used to" is wrong, even the below sentence is referring to a time frame in a way:

When I was young, I used to play football.

Here the time reference is the whole period when I was young.

Please help.

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