Habits in the past

USED TO + INFINITIVE

When I was ten

AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE

YES_NO QUESTION Question word

I used to play with dolls I didn’t use to smoke
Did you use to smoke? What did you use to do?

Yes, I did

No, I didn’t
 EXPLANATION
usedwith
• When I was ten, I played to play
with
my dolls.
• Now I don’t play.

• When I was ten, I didn’t

didn’tsmoke
use to smoke.

• Now I usually smoke.

Did
Didyou use to smokewhen you were ten?
yousmoke

• Do you smoke now?

 ANYMORE

• Susan used to play the piano when she

was ten but now she doesn’t anymore.

• My friends used to smoke a lot when they

were young but they don’t anymore.
 What did(n’t) people use to do in
the nineteenth century?
• People didn’t use to watch TV.
• Now they… usually watch it.
What didn’t people use to do in the
nineteenth century?
• They didn’t use to drink coke.
In the nineteenth century, People…
• People didn’t use to have computers.
• Now most people… usually have a computer.
• People used to have typewriters.
 What did(n’t) people use to do in
the nineteenth century?
• They didn’t use to send e-mails.
• Now many people… usually send e-mails.
• They used to send telegrams.
 What did(n’t) people use to do in
the nineteenth century?
• They didn’t use to use calculators.
• Nowadays people… usually use them.
• They used to use abacuses.
In the nineteenth century people…
• People didn’t use to travel by plane.
• Today most people… usually travel by plane.
• They used to travel on horseback.