USED TO VS. WOULD TO TALK ABOUT PAST HABITS

Pregunta	Respuesta
When we were younger, we used to dance all night long at parties. Image: Dance (binary/octet-stream)	USED TO: can be used to talk about past states as well as past repeated actions and habits. In this sentence, the action of dancing happened in repeated occasions over a period of time in the past.
Luciana would paint fantastic paintings when she was two years old! Image: Paint (binary/octet-stream)	WOULD: is only used to talk about past habits and repeated actions.
XXX When I was a teen, I would live in the countryside. XXX *When I was a teen, I used to live in the countryside.* Image: City+Countryside (binary/octet-stream)	'Would' is not used to talk about past states. So we CANNOT use it with verbs like "live, be, have, like, know, own, agree, disagree, etc."

Resumen del Recurso

	Creado por LOURDES LORENA PÉREZ RIVAS hace más de 4 años