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How to use 'USED TO' correctly - Basic English Grammar

In this video, you'll learn how to use 'USED TO' correctly and avoid common errors that many learners of English make. Also see - MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH & HOW TO AVOID THEM:    • 50 MOST COMMON MISTAKES in English Grammar...   ★★★ Also check out ★★★ ➜ PARTS OF SPEECH (Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb etc.):    • PARTS OF SPEECH Full Course - Basic Englis...   ➜ SHOULD HAVE, COULD HAVE, WOULD HAVE:    • SHOULD HAVE, COULD HAVE, WOULD HAVE - Engl...   ➜ HAVE, HAS, HAD:    • HAVE, HAS, HAD - English Grammar Basics - ...   ➜ HAVE HAD, HAS HAD, HAD HAD:    • HAVE HAD / HAS HAD / HAD HAD - Are these c...   For more FREE English lessons, SUBSCRIBE to this channel. Transcript: Hi and welcome. My name is Ganesh, I'm from LearnEnglishLab.com and in today's lesson we're going to talk about how to use 'used to' correctly. Now this is one of the most misunderstood and misused areas of grammar and by that I mean, many students don't understand the structure and they make a lot of mistakes with it. Well that's why we have this lesson today and after watching this video you won't be making any of those mistakes. Alright now the first and most important thing that you need to keep in mind is that 'used to' talks about the past. It doesn't talk about the present or the future, it talks about the past. Now there is one situation where you can use it to talk about the present but I will tell you what that is at the end of this video but it's not that common so you don't have to really worry about it. Just remember that we use 'used to' to talk about the past. In talking about the past 'used to' has two purposes - the first is to refer to past habits. Take a look at this sentence I have over here - "I used to play soccer in high school." Now when you hear me saying that sentence you should immediately think of two things - first, this happened in the past, and second - this was a habit in the past. That means I'm not saying I played soccer one time in high school No, I'm saying "I used to play soccer in high school" - that means it was a habit for me, and I did it repeatedly. Have a look at this timeline I've got. Let's say that that side is the future, this is now or the present and over on this side is the past. All of these are the action and the action is I used to play soccer in high school. So you can see that I did the action regularly or repeatedly. So it was a habit for me. In the second sentence "Matt used to drink coffee every morning." So once again Matt did it every day. He did it as a habit. You also know that Matt perhaps does not do it now because we're saying Matt used to drink coffee every morning. So maybe Matt drinks tea now or he doesn't drink anything in the morning. So that's one way to use 'used to', that is to talk about past habits. The second is to talk about states or situations that are no longer true. What do I mean by that? Well have a look at sentence number three - Karen used to live in Vermont. Notice that living is not really a habit because it's not something that we do repeatedly - it's simply a state - a state of being or a situation. And this is a situation that was true in the past so Karen started living in Vermont at some point and she lived in Vermont for some period of time and then the situation finished. So let's extend the sentence - we can say "Karen used to live in Vermont but now she lives in New York." So that means she stopped living in Vermont and at some point she moved to New York. In our last sentence, "The office used to be very tidy when Frank was the manager." What do you understand when you hear that sentence? Well I'm not really happy about the new manager because I'm saying the office used to be very tidy when Frank was the manager. So you know that that situation is now finished. Frank is not the manager anymore and the office is not very tidy anymore. Tidy means neat and clean so I'm so saying it in a sort of a negative way. I'm saying the office used to be very tidy back then and now it's not so tidy. So that again is a situation that is no longer true. Alright so now you know the two major ways that we use 'used to' - one is to talk about past habits and the second is states or situations that were true in the past and that are no longer true. OK now let's take a quick look at how to make negative sentences and questions with 'used to'. This is one place where a lot of students make mistakes. Alright take a look at what I have over here - to make negative sentences we put 'didn't' in front of 'used to' and we remove the 'd' from 'used to' - that is very important. So 'didn't use to' Let's make some negative sentences with these. In the first "I didn't use to play soccer in high school." Remember 'didn't use to'