{"id":73296,"date":"2020-03-23T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73296"},"modified":"2020-03-23T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T08:21:02","slug":"talking-about-habits-in-english-english-speaking-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/talking-about-habits-in-english-english-speaking-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Habits In English | English Speaking Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can use\u00a0<b>will<\/b>\u00a0to talk about habits and characteristic behavior.<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0<b>will spend\u00a0<\/b>hours watching TV. (It is her habit.)<br \/>\nThe old woman\u00a0<b>will\u00a0<\/b>sit talking to herself for hours.<br \/>\nHe\u00a0<b>will<\/b>\u00a0never waste an opportunity.<br \/>\nShe\u00a0<b>will get up<\/b>\u00a0early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The simple present tense can also be used to talk about habits.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0<b>smokes.<\/b><br \/>\nShe\u00a0<b>doesn\u2019t get up<\/b>\u00a0early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Sentences with stressed will can be used to criticize people\u2019s typical behavior.<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0<b>WILL\u00a0<\/b>fall in love with the wrong people.<br \/>\nShe\u00a0<b>WILL<\/b>\u00a0have her own way, no matter what you say.<\/p>\n<h3>Used to and would<\/h3>\n<p>To talk about past habits we can use\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>would<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0smoke, but now I have stopped.<br \/>\nHe\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0dislike opera, but now he doesn\u2019t.<br \/>\nHe\u00a0<b>used to\u00a0<\/b>play football at school.<br \/>\nAfter dinner we<b>\u00a0would\u00a0<\/b>sit in the hall and chat for a while.<br \/>\nThe old man\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0recline in a corner and sleep most of the time.<\/p>\n<h3>Grammar notes<\/h3>\n<p><b>Used to<\/b>\u00a0does not have continuous, perfect, infinitive or \u2013ing forms. To talk about present habits we use the simple present.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0<b>smokes\u00a0<\/b>a lot. (NOT He\u00a0<b>uses to\u00a0<\/b>smoke a lot.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can use\u00a0will\u00a0to talk about habits and characteristic behavior. She\u00a0will spend\u00a0hours watching TV. (It is her habit.) The old woman\u00a0will\u00a0sit talking to herself for hours. He\u00a0will\u00a0never waste an opportunity. She\u00a0will get up\u00a0early in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-73296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-english-speaking-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73297,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73296\/revisions\/73297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}