Timeline for Error Analysis question regarding ( used to )
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| Nov 4, 2017 at 20:47 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @user265113 The tense in the adjunct doesn't matter much, because what you're doing is contrasting his former prebedtime consumption with his present prebedtime consumption; but to 'genericize' the time reference I'd be inclined to say before going to bed. | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 14:52 | vote | accept | Ghassan Saeed | ||
| Nov 4, 2017 at 14:50 | comment | added | Gary's Student | @user265113 "before he went to bed" | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 14:39 | comment | added | Ghassan Saeed | I really appreciate your time and thanks for the answer, but is it grammatically wrong to say: "He used to drink so much coffee before he goes to bed."? | |
| Nov 4, 2017 at 14:10 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |