Timeline for How does the phrase "used to" work, grammatically?
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Oct 3, 2013 at 18:26 | comment | added | Pops | From snailboat on ELL SE: "This is one of the seven verbs Pullum playfully calls therapy verbs (want, prospective go, habitual used, obligation have, obligation got, ought, passive supposed) in which he analyzes -to not as a separate word (as in the so-called phrasal verbs) but as a suffix (forming wanna, gonna, usta, hafta, gotta, oughta, sposta), leaving the stem as a morphological head (just as under- in undergo leaves go as the head, giving us under[gone] and under[went] rather than [undergo]ed)." (full source) | |
Aug 6, 2010 at 8:40 | history | answered | Alan Hogue | CC BY-SA 2.5 |