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What's the negation of "I used to be"? Surely not "I didn't used to be"?
What is the negative form of "I used to be"? I often hear "I didn't used to be" but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears.
differences - Didn't used to or didn't use to? - English Language ...
Here is a question that has been nagging me for a few years: Which is the right usage: "Didn't used to" or "didn't use to?" Examples: We lived on the coast for years but we didn't use to go to the
use vs. used what is the correct usage? [duplicate]
I am trying to find out if this question is correct. Did Wang Bo used to be awkward? Should I write "use to be" instead of "used to be," or is "used to be" correct in this sentence?
When is "some" used as plural and when is it used as singular?
I am trying to explain to an ESL student how to understand when to treat "some" as plural and when to treat it as singular. One clear rule is when "some" is the subject followed...
How does the phrase "used to" work, grammatically?
If "used to" is a set idiomatic phrase (i.e. not a tense), then why would it change its form from "use to" to "used to" for the sentence as it does in the positive?
Should infinitive or ing-form be used after "help"?
In the sentence given though, help is quite definitely a verb, and used in an affirmative context, so it would be best to have either a plain infinitival or to -infinitival following it.
"Compared with" vs "Compared to"—which is used when?
Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage, fourth edition (2016) provides what I take to be the current (and traditional) formal prescriptivist view among U.S. usage authorities of when to use compered with and when to use compared to: compare with; compare to. The usual phrase has for centuries been compare with, which means "to place side by side, noting differences and similarities ...
Why is "guinea pig" used as the colloquial term for test subjects?
The animals were frequently used as a model organism in the 19th and 20th centuries, resulting in the epithet "guinea pig" for a test subject, but have since been largely replaced by other rodents such as mice and rats.
"Many people" vs. "much people" — which one should be used?
There's so many people in here! There's so much people here! Which one should be used, and why?
Is the word "psithurism" really used in English?
The OED notes of psithurism, "Obsolete. Forms: α. psithurisma. β. psithurism. This word belongs in Frequency Band 1. Band 1 contains extremely rare words unlikely ever to appear in modern text. These may be obscure technical terms or terms restricted to occasional historical use, e.g. abaptiston, abaxile, grithbreach, gurhofite, zarnich, zeagonite.* The only 4 examples are taken from dates ...
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