WOULD = USED TO

Habits are routine actions.

Habits tend to repeat themselves.

Past habits are routines and repeated actions that occurred in the past ...

• and still happen

• but no longer happen

• and may happen again

• and will happen eventually

We can also use used to to talk about ​ (a)   (repeated actions) that ​​ (b)   .

• past habits
• present situations
• don't happen any more
• still happen

We can use ​USED TO to talk about past ​ (a)   that are ​​ (b)   .

• states
• not true any more
• still true

We used to live in New York when I was a kid.

This sentence is talking about:

• past states

• repeated past actions

I used to go swimming every Thursday when I was at school.

This sentence is talking about:

• past states

• repeated past actions

There didn't use to be a supermarket there. When did it open?

This sentence is talking about:

• past states

• repeated past actions

Did you use to have a garden?

This sentence is talking about:

• past states

• repeated past actions

She used to smoke but she gave up a few years ago

This sentence is talking about:

• past states

• repeated past actions

We ​ (a)   use would to talk about repeated past actions that don't happen any more.

• can
• can't

We ​ (a)   use would to talk about past states that don't happen any more.

• can't
• can