Grammar 4 - used to

We use used to to talk about habits or things that happened regularly in the past but don’t happen now. After used to we
always use a verb in the base form. There is no change for singular / plural.

Affirmative Negative Questions Short answers

They used to live in Barcelona. We didn’t use to travel much. Did he use to travel a lot? Yes, he did.
I used to play football every day. She didn’t use to speak Spanish. Did they use to visit you often? No, he didn’t.
Yes, they did.
No, they didn’t.

Notice that the negative and question form is use to.

A Unscramble the sentences.

1 every day / We / swimming / to / go / used / .
we used to go swimming every day
2 to / go / movie theater / to / on Saturdays / used / the / I / .
I use to go to the movie teather on saturday
3 popcorn / I / use / to / didn’t / like / .
I didn`t use to like popcor
4 didn’t / soccer /use / play / to / They / .
they didn`t use ti play soccer
5 use / to / you / Did / comics / read / ?
Did you use to read comics?

B Choose the correct options.

1 I didn’t used to / _____
use to speak English.
____ / doesn’t use to like rock music.
2 Dave didn’t
_____
3 Ingrid uses to / used to take ballet dancing classes.
4 We used to ____
meet / meets at the coffee shop in the park.
5 I use to / ______
used to hate horror movies.

C Write complete sentences with the correct form of used to and the verbs in parentheses.
1 I used to wear (wear) a uniform at school, but at my new school we can wear normal clothes.
2 Schools I didn`t use to have (not have) computers in the classroom.
3 Before the internet, people used to go (go) to the library to look for information.
4 People used to write (write) more letters to each other, now they use email and text message.
5 My grandparents didn`t use to travel (not travel) abroad often, because it was very expensive.

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