In this lesson, you will learn some different ways to express past habits, states, intentions, and plans.
Past Habits and States
There are a few different ways to describe things in the past that are no longer true.
Used to
You can use used to followed by the base form of the main verb to talk about past habits (regular, repeated past actions) that don’t happen anymore. Note that used to always refers to the past and can be used with or without a specific past time reference.
- Colin used to collect comic books when he was a teenager; he had hundreds of them.
- My mother used to follow the local news quite closely, but I’m not sure if she still does.
- I used to play on the local hockey team.
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