Cover of the textbook New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.3 - The truth about ageing for the textbook New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the Active grammar box with use or used. Check your answers with the text from exercise 1b.
  2. Look at the text from exercise 1b again and find three more examples of used to / didn’t use to.

Answer

a)

  • + → used
  • - → use
  • ? → use

b)

  • ... she used to be a heavy smoker ... .
  • ... she didn’t use to eat very healthily ... .
  • ... she used to eat more than two pounds of chocolate ... .