Outcomes unit 11

used to vs. would
1. repeated events or actions happened in the past => a long time ago and finished:
e.g. I used to go to the countryside in summer.
e.g. I would go to the countryside in summer.
e.g. I went to the countryside in summer. (fact)
2. talk about past states:
e.g. I used to live in Manchester. – I would live in Manchester.
e.g I used to be much slimmer. – I would be much slimmer.
e.g. I lived in Manchester. (fact)
3. talk about something that was in the past and it is not true now:
e.g. I used to work for a company, now I am self-employed.
e.g. I worked for a big company. (fact)

states vs action

states
be
have
live
love
like
think
believe
know
remember
want

used to vs. would
(-)
I didn’t use to eat milk soup.
I never used to eat milk soup. => more natural
(?)
Did you use to like milk soup?
Would you eat milk soup?

used to vs. would

used to vs. would

used to vs. would
PRACTICE

CHILDHOOD DREAMS
When I was a boy, I spent afternoons imagining that I had my own rocket ship. I would invite my cousins my friends to join my crew, and we would lie on our backs inside a very large cardboard box and go through a countdown, blast off into space, spend the whole day exploring other planets, and be back in time for dinner. So that was sort of the beginning – my earliest memories of being fascinated by space.
Chang Diaz, rocket scientist