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I'm used to getting up early Today I've been studying such a structure as "used to". And in this little fiction story, I tried to use this structure in all the ways I could imagine. Hope you can point out the mistakes. When I graduated from university and got a job, I couldn’t get used to get up early. “I can’t get used to get up early” - I was saying to myself every morning on my way to the job. With a such thought in my head, that I would never get used to get up early, I worked about a half year continuing to go to bed very late. I thought there weren’t more terrible thing in the whole world than getting up at 7:00 until our office moved and I had to get up even earlier than before. It was time to do something about the problem. I really liked my job and didn’t want to lose it, so I took a piece of paper and wrote these words on it: “I will get used to getting up early. It’s just a matter of time.” I put this paper on the wall in front of my bed and each time I woke up, the first thing I saw were these words. They cheered me up and after a while, I realized I was getting used to get up early. “I’m doing this! I’m getting used to get up early!” - I said happily. With my new habit of going to bed early I noticed some positive changes came into my life. First, I slept much better and started feeling much healthier. Second, I got extra time in the mornings so I didn’t have to hurry anymore when got going to work. Now I’m used to get up early. Completely. And this have made me a different person.

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In your examples it looks like you should be using the gerund form, 'getting up' instead of 'get up'.

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For example, "I was getting used to getting up early". This is the form you should be using, even though it may sound awkward at first. It implies you are not yet used to, but starting to become accustomed to (doing something).

You can compare this to a more reasonable-sounding example, such as "I was getting used to going alone to the cinema". Notice the need to use the gerund ending here -- and it doesn't sound so strange since you don't have the same word there twice.

Some more examples:

"I was used to getting up early" = I had a habit of getting up early"

"I used to get up early" = basically the same as above. You were doing something in the past, but not anymore.



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I'm used to getting up early

Today I've been studying such a structure as "used to". And in this little fiction story, I tried to use this structure in all the ways I could imagine. Hope you can point out the mistakes.

When I graduated from university and got a job, I couldn’t get used to getting up early. “I can’t get used to getting up early” - I was saying to myself every morning on my way to work. With such a thought in my head, that I would never get used to getting up early, I worked about half a year continuing to go to bed very late.

I thought there wasn't a more terrible thing in the whole world than getting up at 7:00 until our office moved and I had to get up even earlier than before. It was time to do something about the problem. I really liked my job and didn’t want to lose it, so I took a piece of paper and wrote these words on it:

“I will get used to getting up early. It’s just a matter of time.”

I put this paper on the wall in front of my bed and each time I woke up, the first thing I saw were these words. They cheered me up and after a while, I realized I was getting used to getting up early.

“I’m doing this! I’m getting used to getting up early!” - I said happily. With my new habit of going to bed early I noticed some positive changes came into my life. First, I slept much better and started feeling much healthier. Second, I got extra time in the mornings so I didn’t have to hurry anymore when I got going to work.

Now I’m used to getting up early. Completely. And this has made me a different person.

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