USED TO VS. WOULD TO TALK ABOUT PAST HABITS

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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."

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	Created by LOURDES LORENA PÉREZ RIVAS over 4 years ago