Abai Kazakh National

Pedagogical University

CONSTRUCTION
"USED TO"
Aldabergenova Akmaral
Presentation plan
Used to: meaning and form
"Be used to doing"
"Get used to "
Used to

We can use “used to” to talk

about a past habit or state.
"Used to"

An example for a state: “He used to live

in London” (but he doesn’t now)

An example for a habit: “He used to go

on holiday to Scotland every year” (but
he doesn’t now)
So what do we have here?

“Used to” is the same for all subjects, and you

follow it with the infinitive without “to”:

“I / You / He / She / We / They used to smoke.”

To make the negative, use “didn’t” + use + to +

verb. (Remove the final /d/ ending from
“used”.)

“I / He didn’t use to smoke.”

 To make the question, use “did” as the auxiliary, and
take the final /d/ ending off “used”:

"Used “Did you/she use to smoke?”

to"
To talk about past habits in English, you can also use
would + infinitive without “to”:

“We would go to Scotland every year when I was a

child.”
“We would travel there by car overnight.”

However, you cannot use “would” in this way to talk

about past states. For this, you must use “used to”.
"Be used to
doing"
There’s a big difference between
what used to do – to talk about past
habits or states and is used to doing
– to talk about our familiarity with a
place or activity.
The form is subject + verb to be +
used to + verb in the ing form/noun
 "to be used to doing"

Positive Negative Question

subject + to be subject + to be to be + subject

+ used to + + not + used to + used to +
verb in the ing + verb in the verb in the ing
form/noun ing form/noun form/noun
 Examples:
Brenda is very busy, but she doesn't mind. She is used
1 to working very hard.

2 “I am / was used to studying English every day.”

3 “I am used to his jokes.” (example with a noun)

Get used to

You can change the verb “to be” with the verb “get” to talk
about the process of becoming used to something .
“If you live in England, you will get used to driving on the left!”
“He finally got used to the winter weather.”
Don’t make the mistake of combining
both forms to make an ungrammatical
sentence like “I am used to study.”
Remember: Either “I used to study”
(past habit but no longer true) or
“I am used to studying” .
Thanks for
your
attention!