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used tomeaning

auxiliary·B1·6 letters

describes a past habit or state

Example sentence

I used to play football every weekend when I was younger.

What "used to" looks like in a lesson

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Give me a sentence with "used to".

I used to play football every weekend when I was younger.

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That works. Now tell me where you last heard "used to".

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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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