. Jane Lawson explains: "I recently watched an interview on TV with a Spanish lady who has lived and worked in Britain for over twenty years. Her English was perfect! Except... she still made one very common mistake! Even the most advanced speakers of English sometimes get these two structures mixed up. If you pay attention to this DailyStep Audio Word Study, I hope you will never make this mistake again!" . . Used to Meaning : We use ‘ used to’ when we are talking about the past. We use it to talk about something that we did regularly in the past, or a situation that was true in the past. . Examples: 1. I used to live in Cardiff. ( note: ‘used to’ is followed by the bare infinitive – in other words, the infinitive without ‘to’. Here, the bare infinitive is ‘live’.) 2. He used to smoke, but he doesn’t smoke any more. ( note: here, the bare infinitive is ‘smoke’.) 3. I didn’t use to eat oysters but now I love them...