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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Which is acceptable?

I'd like to know which usage is acceptable in the following sentence, 'be used to ving or used to'.
The dream of her son, Jim Bishop, was to own a house on the beach where his mother and he used to sit/ were used to sitting.
  

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The dream of her son, Jim Bishop, was to own a house on the beach where his mother and he used to sit. used to + base form.

  • The dream of her son, Jim Bishop, was to own a house on the beach where his mother and he used to sit.
  • used to + base form.
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The dream of her son, Jim Bishop, was to own a house on the beach where his mother and he used to sit.

used to + base form.

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