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Hello and welcome to Your English Web. My name is Stuart here today with
a grammar tutorial about 'be and get used to'
the difference between the two. Now let's go straight to the blackboard and have a
look at 'be used to'
the structure is 'be' plus 'used to'
plus noun or -ing, okay?
some examples are: I'm used to driving in heavy traffic,
he is used to waking up at 6am,
and she was not used to the hot weather. Now all of these
are meaning that you are accustomed or not to a new
situation. So, for example 'I'm used to driving in heavy traffic'
means that I am accustomed to it, okay?
He is used to waking up at 6am, he's accustomed to waking up
every day at that time, and she was not used to the hot weather
she is not accustomed to hot weather
well she wasn't in this particular situation
because perhaps she comes from a cold country
where they don't have very much hot weather. Now the next structure
is 'get used to' and 'get used to' is get
plus used to plus noun or -ing
and the examples that we have are: I'm getting used to living in Madrid
she's not getting used to waking up
early, okay? Now this means that you are becoming
accustomed to a new situation, okay? You get used to something means that you
become
accustomed to it. Now we can also use
this structure with future tenses:
I will get used to living in Madrid, okay?
It's just a question of time, I will get used to it
or past; he got used to the long
working hours. It was difficult at first then he got used to the long working
hours, so he became
accustomed to the long hours. Now there's two points that I want to highlight here
which we need to be careful about the first one
is used to plus the infinitive for past
situations. Now this is completely different than the used to that we saw
before
and the examples are: I used to live in London but not anymore,
okay? And he used to work here but he retired
so both these are examples of past situations
and not situations that we
are accustomed to, ok? and the other thing we need to be careful with,
especially for Spanish speakers, is this structure here usually plus
the infinitive without 'to', the examples are:
I usually play golf at the weekend, and,
she doesn't usually work on Fridays. Now as I said, some people confuse
'usually' and 'used to' but remember that usually plus the infinitive
is something that you do frequently or habitually
I usually play golf at the weekend, ok?
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