Unit 3B

Used to for past habits and past states

Habit

We used to play football in the pitch near our house.

- We didn’t use to play football…..

State

My sister used to love cats, but now she doesn’t any more.

- She didn’t use to./…..

Used to for past habits NOT events that happened once:

I went to China once when I was a child

I used to go to China once

I used to live in China when I was a child

I used to go to my grandmother every weekend

To express habit in present time we use adverbs of frequency:

We usually play football in the pitch next to our house

We can use adverbs of frequency with past simple and a past phrase

Back then, we usually ate in restaurants and spent a lot of money on food.

I played tennis quite often when I was a child.

To say that you have stopped the habit

I don’t play football in the pitch any more

I don’t play football in the pitch near our house any longer

To express you haven’t changed the habit

I still play football in the pitch next to our house

Do you still play football in the pitch next to your house?

What are Multi-word Verbs?
Multi-word verbs are made up of a verb and a particle.
Particles are words that we use as prepositions and / or adverbs in other
contexts. Here are examples of some of these words:

Verbs Particles (Prepositions and

Adverbs)
Prepositional // Phrasal
give into
be on
look away
take over
bring to
put up
made out

We can combine the verb with the particle

The verb alone gives a meaning
When we add the particle (adverb or preposition or both), it gives another
meaning

For example:
Give
Up

He hopes to give up smoking = stop

He gave up smoking last year

Where?
- After the subject

Separated or Not?
Some multi-word verbs can be split up, while others cannot:

 Cannot be separated:  She looks after her neighbors’ children.

You can’t say: She looks her neighbors’ children after XXXXXXXXX

 Can be separated: 
He looked up the word in the dictionary

He looked the word up in the dictionary 

With pronouns :

He looked it up

 == he looked up it XXXXXXXXX