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Today's Allen English Tribe question is not particularly difficult, let's do it, what will your answer be? It actually mainly examines the difference in the usage of the two phrases "used to" and "be used to doing". Even though they look alike, the meanings are completely different! Now, let's take a look at the difference between them.
Let's first look at the use of the phrase used to, which means " used to do something ". For specific usage, let's take a look at this sentence:
We see in this sentence, " I used to play football after school ", just mentioned, "used to" expresses in the past time to do things often. From this example, we can know that I used to play football after school, , but now I no longer continue to play . So, to express that we used to do something, we will use the phrase used to.
Okay, let's look at the usage of "be used to doing". This phrase means " gets used to doing something", or "gets used to...". How to use it? Let's take a look at the following example:
In this example, the phrase be used to doing is used, let's analyze it. In fact, this sentence is very similar to the sentence we just mentioned above. The difference is that the first sentence uses "used to play", while the second sentence uses "am used to playing".Although the difference is small, the meaning of the expression is completely different. In this sentence,
says "I am used to playing football in after school in ", expressing that I am accustomed to playing football, and still maintains the habit of playing football .
And the last sentence expresses that I used to play football after school, the implication is that I no longer play, Can you distinguish these two phrases? Okay, now we have a clear understanding of the usage and difference between these two phrases. Let's go back to the topic at the beginning.
Seeing the title, we must first analyze the meaning of the title: I used to have dinner at five o'clock in the afternoon every day. But now I'm used to having dinner at six o'clock in the afternoon. We understand the general idea of the question clearly, and now we can choose the options through the meaning of the question.
is in the first blank, which means that you have often done something. According to what we just said above, the phrase used to should be used, so options A and D can exclude .
Let’s look at the following topic, but now I am used to eating at 6 o’clock in the afternoon , if I want to express that I am accustomed to doing something, the phrase that can be used is be used to doing, and the two options B and C are Both use the expression be used to doing, except that one is in the present tense and the other is in the past tense. So which one should you choose?
Let’s look back at the title. The title mentioned is but now I… (but I am now…). Obviously, the title expresses the current state of habit, so the be verb should also use the present tense, which is am .So the correct answer should be C, did you choose correctly?
Through this simple topic today, we have mastered two knowledge points in total: the difference between used to and be used to doing, has everyone remembered ? Is it not so boring for
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