{"id":73617,"date":"2020-03-31T16:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73617"},"modified":"2020-04-02T03:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T03:27:01","slug":"would-vs-used-to-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/would-vs-used-to-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Would vs. Used To"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Would<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Use<b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/modal-auxiliary-would\/\">would<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>to talk about repeated actions and events in the past.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The old man\u00a0<b>would\u00a0<\/b>sit in a corner talking to himself for hours.<\/li>\n<li>After dinner we all\u00a0<b>would<\/b>\u00a0sit in the drawing room and chat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/would-vs-used-to\/\">used to<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>talk about repeated actions and events in the past.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The old man\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0sit in a corner talking to himself for hours.<\/li>\n<li>After dinner we all\u00a0<b>used to\u00a0<\/b>sit in the drawing room and chat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Difference<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We can use\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0to talk about past states.\u00a0<b>Would<\/b>\u00a0cannot be used with this meaning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>used to<\/b>\u00a0have an old Rolls-Royce. (NOT I would have an old Rolls-Royce.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would Use\u00a0would\u00a0to talk about repeated actions and events in the past. The old man\u00a0would\u00a0sit in a corner talking to himself for hours. After dinner we all\u00a0would\u00a0sit in the drawing room and chat. Use\u00a0used to\u00a0talk&#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":[1749,1748,1750],"class_list":["post-73617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-used-to","tag-would","tag-would-vs-used-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73617","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=73617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73622,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73617\/revisions\/73622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}