{"id":73500,"date":"2020-03-26T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73500"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:22:53","slug":"would-vs-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/would-vs-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Would vs. Used To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Would<\/b>\u00a0can be used to talk about past habits and typical characteristics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0always carry an umbrella.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0often go for long drives.<\/li>\n<li>Her days\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0start at 5.30 and then she would dust, clean, wash, cook and iron.<\/li>\n<li>The old man\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0sit in a corner talking to himself for hours.<\/li>\n<li>When we were kids we\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0go swimming every Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0often bring us nice gifts.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0rarely talk to each other.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0rarely step out of his room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In most cases, it is possible to express these ideas using<b>\u00a0used to<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She<b>\u00a0used to<\/b>\u00a0always carry an umbrella.<\/li>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0go for long drives.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0get up at 5.30.<\/li>\n<li>When we were kids we<b>\u00a0used to<\/b>\u00a0go swimming every Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>She\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0bring us nice gifts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Difference between would and used to<\/h2>\n<p><b>Used to<\/b>\u00a0can be used to talk about past states which are now finished.\u00a0<b>Would<\/b>\u00a0cannot be used to refer to past states.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That heritage hotel\u00a0<b>used to be<\/b>\u00a0a royal palace.<\/li>\n<li>There\u00a0<b>used to be<\/b>\u00a0a library down the street.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That auditorium\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0be a cinema theatre. (= The building was once a cinema theatre, but now it is an auditorium.)<\/li>\n<li>The manager said that the auditorium\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0be a cinema theatre. (= The building is now an auditorium, but it is going to be a cinema theatre.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notice how the meaning becomes diametrically opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Note that\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0is the past tense form of\u00a0<b>will<\/b>\u00a0in\u00a0indirect speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would\u00a0can be used to talk about past habits and typical characteristics. She\u00a0would\u00a0always carry an umbrella. He\u00a0would\u00a0often go for long drives. Her days\u00a0would\u00a0start at 5.30 and then she would dust, clean, wash, cook and iron.&#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":[251],"tags":[1749,1748,1751,1750],"class_list":["post-73500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-used-to","tag-would","tag-would-or-used-to","tag-would-vs-used-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73500","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=73500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73501,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73500\/revisions\/73501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}