Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 21

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• 00:10

  Hi there and welcome back.

• 00:11

  This is Harry, and welcome to the podcast.

• 00:15

  This particular sentence is connected to the first sentence that I gave you.

• 00:19

  In the first sentence, I was using the expression used to.

• 00:23

  Okay, so just keep that in mind.

• 00:25

  And we said it was about the past tense.

• 00:28

  Today we're going to use a different expression used to.

• 00:32

  I am used to doing something.

• 00:35

  Okay, so I'll explain the difference.

• 00:37

  As always, I'm going to read the sentence twice, okay.

• 00:41

  And then I'll explain it.

• 00:43

  Okay, so if you're ready, we'll begin first reading.

• 00:47

  When I got divorced, at first it was difficult, but I am used to living on my own now.

• 00:55

  When I got divorced at first, it was difficult, but I am used to living on my own now.

• 01:06

  Okay, so let me just read it one more time because it is a longer sentence than usual.

• 01:12

  When I got divorced, at first, it was difficult, but I am used to living on my own now.

• 01:21

  Okay, so I'll leave a gap for you to repeat it.

• 01:28

  Okay, so what are we talking about here?

• 01:31

  As I said, it's connected in, in some way to the first sentence we're using used to.

• 01:37

  But in the first sentence, we used used to past tense, something that you don't do any longer.

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