What's the difference between "got used to" and "was getting used to"? I got used to driving on the left. I was getting used to driving on the left.
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This is a case of past simple vs. past continuous. The first describes a completed action, the other describes one still in progress.
I got used to driving on the left.
The speaker is now used to driving on the left. That process is finished.
I was getting used to driving on the left.
At the time being spoken about, the speaker was still not 100% used to driving on the left, but they were working on it.
Where some people get tripped up is when the continuous is used to mean an action is almost or pretty much completed - the difference between
Throughout January, I was getting used to driving on the left
and
By February, I was getting used to driving on the left
This is still different from past simple in that however close the action is to completion, it still isn't there yet.
