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11 - Professions, used to ✓

July 16, 2019

Professions

Architects, designers, farmers, engineers, drivers, sales people, musicians, workers, teachers, scientists, developers, programmers, lawyers, tailors, doctors, policemans, soldiers, hairdressers, sportsmans, coachs, …

Used to / didn’t used to

Used to (do smth) в Present Simple

Привычка в прошлом, которая больше не повторяется в настоящем, если в контексте нет точных временных границ.

Можно used to менять на would - по смыслу будет тоже самое

I used to like swiming, but now …

I used to live in Moscow, but now …

I worked here for three years. (used to не используется)

Marker-words

When I was younger, In my childhood, many years ago

To be used to

Привычка в настоящем.

To be used to (doing smth) в Present Continuous

I am used to living in a small town.


Evgeny Leukhin

Written by Evgeny Leukhin