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Please, analyse the following explanation that I wrote in the test I did yesterday: The difference between 'used to do' and 'be used to doing' You must utilise 'used to do' to narrate habits you had in the past and are no longer part of your life, whilst 'be used to doing' refers to a habit you acquired in the past and still is part of your life in the present. Was it properly written?

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I think this is very close! You are spot on with your explanation of "used to do" - it is a habit you had in the past. "Be used to doing" is very close, but it can be used in the present or the past, and simply means a habit that you have acquired and perform often. For example: "I was used to doing the dishes, but then I got a dishwasher and no longer need to" <- this means that although in the past I often washed dishes, I no longer am in that habit "I am used to doing the dishes" <- this means that I acquired the habit of often washing dishes in the past, and that has carried into the present.

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