Timeline for Used to or past simple with the adverb 'When'
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 9:49 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 3, 2017 at 9:20 | vote | accept | JUNCINATOR | ||
| May 31, 2017 at 9:17 | comment | added | TimR | @SovereignSun: My caveats in superscript have addressed the points you're making: "ungrammatical if referring to an occupation you had for a contiguous period" ("when I used to work as a teller on the weekends" would be grammatical since it's referring to something you did on occasion non-contiguously) and "when the meaning...is 'attend as an enrolled student'". where I acknowledge that there are other meanings of "when I used to go". | |
| May 31, 2017 at 8:28 | comment | added | SovereignSun | I agree with what you say, however, used to can sometimes mean had to (for some time) and When I used to work as a teller. may mean When I worked as a teller for some time, though I didn't want it much. Also, When I used to go there may mean In the past when I had the habit of going there | |
| May 30, 2017 at 22:52 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 30, 2017 at 22:45 | history | answered | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |