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Grammar: Habits in the past

Used to

In the text we read in the previous section it says: Hollywood is not the epicenter it used to be.

This means Hollywood was the epicenter in the past, but it is not any more, that is why we use "used to".

Grammar Practice

 Complete the following sentences with the correct form of used to + one of these verbs.

go (x3)   sing    listen    (not)have    like   be

    1. I to music when I was a child.
    2. What music when you were a teenager?
    3. We to the cinema every Tuesday.
    4. Jane in the school choir.
    5. My brother long hair when he was young.
    6. I the cinema with my parents when I was a child.
    7. There a cinema in Rubine Street.
    8. My daughter to acting lessons.

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