- use vs. used what is the correct usage? [duplicate]
I am trying to find out if this question is correct Did Wang Bo used to be awkward? Should I write "use to be" instead of "used to be," or is "used to be" correct in this sentence?
- I use to, or I used to - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
As reported by the NOAD in a note about the usage of used: There is sometimes confusion over whether to use the form used to or use to, which has arisen largely because the pronunciation is the same in both cases Except in negatives and questions, the correct form is used to: we used to go to the movies all the time (not we use to go to the movies) However, in negatives and questions using
- When is some used as plural and when is it used as singular?
1 To add to Kate Bunting's comment, some has been used with singular nouns to refer generally to the noun (e g "some church", "some castle") as early as the 12th century The practical meaning is that the speaker doesn't know which church, or which castle: After wandering in the woods for days, he saw some castle in the distance
- Used to or used for? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
To me, "used to" and "used for" are incompatible, as shown in the examples below However, I am unable to substantiate this MS Word doesn't "see" the differences, so I turned to "Essential grammar
- differences - Didnt used to or didnt use to? - English Language . . .
Here is a question that has been nagging me for a few years: Which is the right usage: "Didn't used to" or "didn't use to?" Examples: We lived on the coast for years but we didn't use to go to the
- word choice - When should we use and and or and or? - English . . .
It is used within the AP Stylebook, for example I have never seen a reference to and or in any spoken English textbooks, and as such, when answering how it is spoken, I can only speak from personal experience
- How does the phrase used to work, grammatically?
If "used to" is a set idiomatic phrase (i e not a tense), then why would it change its form from "use to" to "used to" for the sentence as it does in the positive?
- Should infinitive or ing-form be used after help?
These make up the vast majority of hits for 'can help doing something' in the Corpus of Contemporary American English In the sentence given though, help is quite definitely a verb, and used in an affirmative context, so it would be best to have either a plain infinitival or to -infinitival following it
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