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 USE OF
USED TO
 DEFINITION
The verb "use" means "to use" or "to utilize". However,
when we use this verb in the simple past, plus the
preposition "to", as a modal verb, the meaning changes. In
addition, "used to" can be used as an adjective.
 USED TO

We use the modal verb "used to" to indicate something that

happened or happened in the past on a regular basis. Also, it is
used for something that used to be true but is no longer true.
As with the other modal verbs, "used to" is followed by the base
form of the verb (the infinitive without "to").
STRUCTURE
Affirmative
COMPLEMENT
VERB to the beach every summer when I was young
USED TO go
SUBJECT used to

We
 1.
He used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a
day, but he quit last year

EXAMPLES 2. I used to like mushrooms, but not anymore

There used to be a great restaurant here,

3.
but it closed a few years ago
STRUCTURE
Negative COMPLEMENT
USED VERB mushrooms, but
TO like
now I do

DIDNT used to
SUBJECT didn’t

I
 1. Food didn’t use to be so expensive

EXAMPLES
We didn’t use to go away on holiday very
2.
often when I was young
STRUCTURE
Interrogative COMPLEMENT
USED VERB a lot?
TO smoke
SUBJECT used to
DID he

Didn’t
 1. Did you use to live here?

EXAMPLES
Did they use to go to the beach in the
2.
summers?
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