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Past habits without 'used to': Stop Saying

Past habits without 'used to': Stop Saying

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1
Is there another way of talking about past habits without using 'used to'? This is the question that Tim tackles in this video. In it he has to reveal some of the dark secrets of his past as well as some of his present habits, which can't all be recommended. For more
Date: 2020-09-18

Comments and reviews: 5


Used to is perfectly correct and acceptable English, used everyday. There ought to be no issue with using this phrase. It's actually incorrect to say I would in the past tense, you need a condition to use would as a tense, e.g. I would go to the park when I had the time.
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This is really confusing we've learned for all these years that you have to say used to when talking about past habits and now simply tell us STOP IT
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You're missing the nuance - if you use would it's more nostalgic, used to is more factual. And we almost always use a time phrase with would
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Hey, my dear RP accent Sir, where were you? I love your English language videos from your workshop...hope those videos will continue
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Hi Tim. Can you give some examples using unless and explain it?. Whenever I read the sentences containing unless, I get confused.
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