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Aminatt
10 mag 2017

  • Russo
  • Inglese (Regno Unito)
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is it correct?

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_ItsYuko_
10 mag 2017

  • Inglese (Regno Unito) Quasi esperto
  • Tedesco
  • Inglese (Stati Uniti) Quasi esperto

Sentence 3 works perfectly fine, but rather say 'the girl' and use the simple past of the verb (since you're mentioning a specific point of time) in sentence 4. Better leave out 'use to' in the last sentence! :)

mamgainloveshoney
10 mag 2017

  • Hindi

2. my mom ran away from dogs last week at 5 o'clock
4.a girl didn't eat ice cream yesterday at 3 o'clock
3.were you watching tv when your.........

peterf
10 mag 2017

  • Inglese (Regno Unito)

1 is fine
2 is laboured and unnatural. At five o'clock last week my mum ran away from some dogs.
3 is fine, though a lot of BrE speakers would use "whilst" instead of "while", but that's not important here
4. again unnatural, but not technically incorrect.
5. Common mistake even for native speakers - it should be "used to" as it ALWAYS defines a past event and hence is in the past tense.
6. Again "Didn't you used to visit a doctor/"

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Aminatt
10 mag 2017

  • Russo
@peterf thank you! so we always say "used to" and "use to"never?
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_ItsYuko_
10 mag 2017

  • Inglese (Regno Unito) Quasi esperto
  • Tedesco
  • Inglese (Stati Uniti) Quasi esperto

@Dasha0906 If it's a question, you normally say: 'Did you use to (do something)?' The phrase is still used in the past tense here, though :)

Aminatt
10 mag 2017

  • Russo
@_ItsYuko_ okay, get it now😅thank you:)
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