When is "some" used as plural and when is it used as singular?
What is the negative form of "I used to be"? I often hear "I didn't used to be" but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears.
What's the negation of "I used to be"? Surely not "I didn't used to be"?
I am trying to find out if this question is correct. Did Wang Bo used to be awkward? Should I write "use to be" instead of "used to be," or is "used to be" correct in this sentence?
If "used to" is a set idiomatic phrase (i.e. not a tense), then why would it change its form from "use to" to "used to" for the sentence as it does in the positive?
Used to indicate the maiden name of a married woman. (2) Formerly known as. From definition (2) of the both of the above, I found the word, ‘née’ can be used both for person and other than person.
word usage - Can "née" be used for entities other than people ...
These make up the vast majority of hits for 'can help doing something' in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. In the sentence given though, help is quite definitely a verb, and used in an affirmative context, so it would be best to have either a plain infinitival or to -infinitival following it.
However, the next occurrence (from Ohio/Missouri in 1917) used the hyphenated form, teen-agers, and for the entire period, teen-ager [s] (12) and teen agers (11) appeared in almost exactly the same number of articles. The spelling teenagers also appeared during this early period, although only twice.