Thurston Moore Wrote:
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> spunky Wrote:
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> > Professor Pangloss Wrote:
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> > > Please explain, spunky, what do you mean no
> > past
> > > tense is needed? Right now I'm too lazy to
> > > actually look this up and it's very
> unimportant
> > to
> > > me, but I fail to see how this particular
> piece
> > of
> > > grammar, even if it is incorrect, constitutes
> > as
> > > definitive proof.
> > >
> > > I would say that the vernacular is to say
> > 'used'
> > > in these sorts of situations.
> >
> >
> > Well, you would be wrong there Pang (Mess). As
> > you have been before.
> >
> > Ones writing style is unique and this proof is
> > more then a coincidence, It's consistent with
> the
> > writing style of Mess, or a foreigner to our
> > language.
>
>
> If you had bothered to follow the link I posted
> earlier, you wouldn't be trying to incorrectly
> correct other people.
>
>
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/usedtotext.htm
>
> "'Used to' or 'use to' vs would
> I was asked on Pal Talk recently how to use used
> to and would.
>
> If we say something used to happen we are talking
> about repeated events and actions in the past,
> usually things that happened a long time ago and
> are now finished.
>
> To express this we can use either used to or
> would.
>
> When I was young I used to play with my dolls. =
> When I was young I would play with my dolls.
> Of course I no longer play with dolls!
>
> We used to go out a lot in the summer.
> Implies that we no longer go out much.
>
> If you want to talk about repeated states or
> habits in the past, you must use used to, you
> cannot use would : :
>
> My dog used to bark at cats.
> I used to smoke.
> I used to be an administrative assistant.
> I used to live in England.
> You should use 'use to' without a d in sentences
>
when it follows 'did' or 'didn't' (don't worry too
This is wrong and you are blowin' it out your shorts. How does that feel?
It's 'use to' regardless of 'did or didn't' falling in a sentence or not. Just another imposter tryin' to help himself(Mess) out.
My the way there are no BIs, only true FAGS tryin' to stay in the closet.
> much about this because lots of people get it
> wrong).
>
> The question form is ‘Did you use to…?'. When
> asking a closed question you put did/didn't in
> front of the subject followed by use to, you
> cannot use would.
> "