USED TO vs. WOULD

Many women wore tight jeans and cowboy boots.

• Many women have worn tight jeans and cowboy boots.

  
  

• Many women used to wear tight jeans and cowboy boots.

• Many women used to wearing tight jeans and cowboy boots.

Tattoos and body piercings weren't as popular as now.

• Tattoos and body piercings didn't used to be as popular as now.

  
  

• Tattoos and body piercings not used to be as popular as now.

• Tattoos and body piercings didn't use to be as popular as now.

Supermodels such as Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer were famous.

• Supermodels such as Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer used to be famous.

• Supermodels such as Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer use to be famous.

• Supermodels such as Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer would be famous.

Was short hair fashionable?

• Would short hair fashionable?

• Did short hair use to be fashionable?

• Did short hair used to be fashionable?

We use USED TO + VERB or WOULD + VERB to talk about regular habits.

• True

• False

USED TO refers to

• past states

• repeated actions finished in the the past

• repeated actions in the present

WOULD refers to

• states

• repeated actions in the past

• repeated actions in the present

We can use USED TO and WOULD to refer to regular past actions that don't happen anymore.

• True

• False

We usually use WOULD in affirmative, negative sentences and questions.

• True

• False

I can use USED TO for an action that occurs once.

• True

• False