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Traduzione e definizione
to use: usare, utilizzare
the use: l'uso, l'utilizzo
What's the use of this thing? A cosa serve questa cosa?
Pronunciation examples
UK: Don't use the computer to write letters. You should use a pen!
US: What's the use of a pen? Pens are useless in the modern world!
Esempi
- "Use a time machine."
- "I'm probably photocopying or making coffee at the moment, but please leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I get permission to use the phone again."
- "I have used shorthand in my notes in order to save time."
- "Young Icarus : Buh, I'm so sorry Mr. Romanonovitch, but it's just that the non-negative variables you suggested for use of X and X squared were a bit more difficult to manipulate than I expected!"
- "A president can't use his power to further his own interests, or the interests of his family or friends or even the man he's madly in love with."
- "Use that strength!"
- "Danica : Bruno, if you want to get ahead in life, you can't use names like Pop Pop."
- "Anyway, feel free to use the gym at your leisure, though keep in mind that the workouts are mandatory."
- "Today I'm wearing a sky blue shirt, so I'll be using expressions related to the sky and the colour blue."
- "I am using my last silk scarf to write you this note, please forgive the ink-stained fabric."
- "Lawyer : Uh, Mr. Capone, for legal purposes, I'd like you to refrain from using the term "gangster" to describe yourself."
- "I've got a beautiful feeling, that I will use my machete!"
- "Marvin : They are both lying, I am used for spying"
- "Brian : Probably not... I don't enjoy nuclear war as much as I used to."
- "Delavigne Corp, already considered a maverick in the cosmetics industry for its staunch refusal to use animals in the testing of its products, hopes to promote ecological awareness among customers as well as take advantage of a new wave of environmental consciousness brought to national attention by the recent bestseller "Global Warming: It's all your fault"."
- "Passengers are therefore advised to use the Piccadilly and Bakerloo line."
- "I hope you don't mind me contacting you "out of the blue lagoon"* like this (I hope I've used the idiom correctly)."
- "Now, use the secret knock."
- "You used to be about the music, man."
- "I'm Spitting - using "Spitter" on my mobile phone!"
Esercizio 1
Fill in the blanks below with the appropriate construction: either used to, to be used to, or to use. Remember to conjugate verbs when necessary.
Kevin: I just can't get these new changes in the office.
Bob: What are you talking about?
Kevin: Every time you want the bathroom, you have to pay twenty-five cents!
Bob: It's only a quarter. Everyone else in the office paying it already. What's your problem?
Kevin: Life didn't be like this! What happened to the days of free toilets?
Bob: I guess they got flushed*! Ha!
Kevin: That's not even funny.
Bob: Ha!
*'Flushing the toilet' is what most people do after going to the bathroom.
Kevin: I just can't get these new changes in the office.
Bob: What are you talking about?
Kevin: Every time you want the bathroom, you have to pay twenty-five cents!
Bob: It's only a quarter. Everyone else in the office paying it already. What's your problem?
Kevin: Life didn't be like this! What happened to the days of free toilets?
Bob: I guess they got flushed*! Ha!
Kevin: That's not even funny.
Bob: Ha!
*'Flushing the toilet' is what most people do after going to the bathroom.
Fill in the blanks below with the appropriate construction: either used to, to be used to, or to use. Remember to conjugate verbs when necessary.
Kevin: I just can't get used to 1 these new changes in the office.
Bob: What are you talking about?
Kevin: Every time you want to use 2 the bathroom, you have to pay twenty-five cents!
Bob: It's only a quarter. Everyone else in the office is used to 3 paying it already. What's your problem?
Kevin: Life didn't use to 4 be like this! What happened to the days of free toilets?
Bob: I guess they got flushed*! Ha!
Kevin: That's not even funny.
Bob: Ha!
*'Flushing the toilet' is what most people do after going to the bathroom.
Kevin: I just can't get used to 1 these new changes in the office.
Bob: What are you talking about?
Kevin: Every time you want to use 2 the bathroom, you have to pay twenty-five cents!
Bob: It's only a quarter. Everyone else in the office is used to 3 paying it already. What's your problem?
Kevin: Life didn't use to 4 be like this! What happened to the days of free toilets?
Bob: I guess they got flushed*! Ha!
Kevin: That's not even funny.
Bob: Ha!
*'Flushing the toilet' is what most people do after going to the bathroom.
1 used to: This is the best choice here. To 'get used to something' means to 'become accustomed to something', or to 'become familiar' with it. This phrase is often used in the negative: 'I cannot get used to' for example. Here, Kevin is indirectly expressing his disapproval of 'the new changes in the office'.
2 to use: This is the best choice here. We use the infinitive verb 'to use' here because the infinitive must follow the verb 'to want'. In this phrase, 'to use' carries the sense of 'going to the toilets'.
3 is used to: 'Everyone else is used to paying it' means that 'everyone else is already accustomed to paying the money' and that the others don't have a problem with the changes, unlike Kevin. In English, 'everyone' is part of a family of pronouns which takes singular verbs even though the terms refer to multiple subjects or objects.
4 use to: 'Used to' expresses habit in the past. 'Life didn't use to be like this' means that in the past, things were not the same as they are today. Kevin is still complaining about the changes in the office. We use the infinitive form of the verb here (without 'to', and with no final 'd') because of the auxiliary 'didn't' which precedes the main verb.
Esercizio 2
Horatio has never been able living outside the jungles of the Amazon. When he was a boy, he wake up to the cry of the wild macaw parrots. When he wanted to eat dinner, he would his skills in tracking to hunt down panthers or wild boars and then eat them. Now, in America, he wakes up to the sound of an alarm clock and eats microwave macaroni & cheese.
Horatio has never been able to get used to 1 living outside the jungles of the Amazon. When he was a boy, he used to 2 wake up to the cry of the wild macaw parrots. When he wanted to eat dinner, he would use 3 his skills in tracking to hunt down panthers or wild boars and then eat them. Now, in America, he wakes up to the sound of an alarm clock and eats microwave macaroni & cheese.
1 to get used to: This is the best choice here. To 'get used to something' means to 'become accustomed to' something, or 'become familiar with something'. It is often used in the negative to express someone's inability or difficulty to 'accept' their present situation.
1 to be used to: 'He has never been able to be used to' does not make sense, because 'be' implies a passive state, while the construction requires an active verb.
1 to use: We cannot say 'to use living'. As an ordinary verb, 'use' is not followed by a verb in the -ING form.
1 used to: 'He has never been able used to' is grammatically incorrect. We need another verb in between 'able' and 'used', such as 'get'.
2 used to: This is the best choice here. 'Used to' expresses habit in the past. When he was a child, Horatio 'habitually' woke up to the sound of birds.
2 was used to: 'He was used to wake up' is grammatically incorrect. We could say, however: 'He was used to waking up'.
2 got used to: 'He got used to wake up' is grammatically incorrect. We could say, however: 'He got used to waking up'.
2 is using: 'He is using to wake up' is grammatically incorrect. This sentence is one of the ugliest I've ever seen. Shame on you!
3 use: This is the best choice here. To 'use' expresses that Horatio 'made use of' or 'employed' his skills to hunt boars and panthers. A wild boar is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig and favourite food of Asterix and Obelix's village.
3 get used to: Although 'get used to' is not grammatically incorrect here, it does not make sense in the context. The 'be used to' construction expresses familiarity with a subject or idea. In this case it doesn't belong in the phrase.
3 be used to: Although 'be used to' is not grammatically incorrect here, it does not make sense in the context. The 'be used to' construction expresses familiarity with a subject or idea. In this case it doesn't belong in the phrase.
3 used to: 'He would used to' is grammatically incorrect. We never use 'used to' preceded by an auxiliary such as 'would'.
Esercizio 3
Fill in the blanks below with the appropriate construction: either used to, to be used to, or to use. Remember to conjugate verbs when necessary.
Kevin: I just can't get these new changes in the office.
Bob: What are you talking about?
Kevin: Every time you want the bathroom, you have to pay twenty-five cents!
Bob: It's only a quarter. Everyone else in the office paying it already. What's your problem?
Kevin: Life didn't be like this! What happened to the days of free toilets?
Bob: I guess they got flushed*! Ha!
Kevin: That's not even funny.
Bob: Ha!
*'Flushing the toilet' is what most people do after going to the bathroom.
Kevin: I just can't get these new changes in the office.
Bob: What are you talking about?
Kevin: Every time you want the bathroom, you have to pay twenty-five cents!
Bob: It's only a quarter. Everyone else in the office paying it already. What's your problem?
Kevin: Life didn't be like this! What happened to the days of free toilets?
Bob: I guess they got flushed*! Ha!
Kevin: That's not even funny.
Bob: Ha!
*'Flushing the toilet' is what most people do after going to the bathroom.
Fill in the blanks below with the appropriate construction: either used to, to be used to, or to use. Remember to conjugate verbs when necessary.
Kevin: I just can't get used to 1 these new changes in the office.
Bob: What are you talking about?
Kevin: Every time you want to use 2 the bathroom, you have to pay twenty-five cents!
Bob: It's only a quarter. Everyone else in the office is used to 3 paying it already. What's your problem?
Kevin: Life didn't use to 4 be like this! What happened to the days of free toilets?
Bob: I guess they got flushed*! Ha!
Kevin: That's not even funny.
Bob: Ha!
*'Flushing the toilet' is what most people do after going to the bathroom.
Kevin: I just can't get used to 1 these new changes in the office.
Bob: What are you talking about?
Kevin: Every time you want to use 2 the bathroom, you have to pay twenty-five cents!
Bob: It's only a quarter. Everyone else in the office is used to 3 paying it already. What's your problem?
Kevin: Life didn't use to 4 be like this! What happened to the days of free toilets?
Bob: I guess they got flushed*! Ha!
Kevin: That's not even funny.
Bob: Ha!
*'Flushing the toilet' is what most people do after going to the bathroom.
1 used to: This is the best choice here. To 'get used to something' means to 'become accustomed to something', or to 'become familiar' with it. This phrase is often used in the negative: 'I cannot get used to' for example. Here, Kevin is indirectly expressing his disapproval of 'the new changes in the office'.
2 to use: This is the best choice here. We use the infinitive verb 'to use' here because the infinitive must follow the verb 'to want'. In this phrase, 'to use' carries the sense of 'going to the toilets'.
3 is used to: 'Everyone else is used to paying it' means that 'everyone else is already accustomed to paying the money' and that the others don't have a problem with the changes, unlike Kevin. In English, 'everyone' is part of a family of pronouns which takes singular verbs even though the terms refer to multiple subjects or objects.
4 use to: 'Used to' expresses habit in the past. 'Life didn't use to be like this' means that in the past, things were not the same as they are today. Kevin is still complaining about the changes in the office. We use the infinitive form of the verb here (without 'to', and with no final 'd') because of the auxiliary 'didn't' which precedes the main verb.
Esercizio 4
Horatio has never been able living outside the jungles of the Amazon. When he was a boy, he wake up to the cry of the wild macaw parrots. When he wanted to eat dinner, he would his skills in tracking to hunt down panthers or wild boars and then eat them. Now, in America, he wakes up to the sound of an alarm clock and eats microwave macaroni & cheese.
Horatio has never been able to get used to 1 living outside the jungles of the Amazon. When he was a boy, he used to 2 wake up to the cry of the wild macaw parrots. When he wanted to eat dinner, he would use 3 his skills in tracking to hunt down panthers or wild boars and then eat them. Now, in America, he wakes up to the sound of an alarm clock and eats microwave macaroni & cheese.
1 to get used to: This is the best choice here. To 'get used to something' means to 'become accustomed to' something, or 'become familiar with something'. It is often used in the negative to express someone's inability or difficulty to 'accept' their present situation.
1 to be used to: 'He has never been able to be used to' does not make sense, because 'be' implies a passive state, while the construction requires an active verb.
1 to use: We cannot say 'to use living'. As an ordinary verb, 'use' is not followed by a verb in the -ING form.
1 used to: 'He has never been able used to' is grammatically incorrect. We need another verb in between 'able' and 'used', such as 'get'.
2 used to: This is the best choice here. 'Used to' expresses habit in the past. When he was a child, Horatio 'habitually' woke up to the sound of birds.
2 was used to: 'He was used to wake up' is grammatically incorrect. We could say, however: 'He was used to waking up'.
2 got used to: 'He got used to wake up' is grammatically incorrect. We could say, however: 'He got used to waking up'.
2 is using: 'He is using to wake up' is grammatically incorrect. This sentence is one of the ugliest I've ever seen. Shame on you!
3 use: This is the best choice here. To 'use' expresses that Horatio 'made use of' or 'employed' his skills to hunt boars and panthers. A wild boar is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig and favourite food of Asterix and Obelix's village.
3 get used to: Although 'get used to' is not grammatically incorrect here, it does not make sense in the context. The 'be used to' construction expresses familiarity with a subject or idea. In this case it doesn't belong in the phrase.
3 be used to: Although 'be used to' is not grammatically incorrect here, it does not make sense in the context. The 'be used to' construction expresses familiarity with a subject or idea. In this case it doesn't belong in the phrase.
3 used to: 'He would used to' is grammatically incorrect. We never use 'used to' preceded by an auxiliary such as 'would'.
Esercizio 5
Monique tells Philip that "he used to date (her) cousin Tiffany".
This phrase literally means that:
This phrase literally means that:
Monique tells Philip that "he used to date (her) cousin Tiffany".
This phrase literally means that:
This phrase literally means that:
This is correct. "Used to" followed by an infinitive verb (to date) expresses a habitual action in the past. In this case Philip and Tiffany dated in the past.
Do not confuse the "used to + verb" construction with the verb "to use", which can express a sense of "taking advantage" or "mistreatment" when speaking about people. For example: "The criminal used him for his own evil machinations".
This is not what Monique is expressing. In this sentence, the verb "to date" is being used in the sense of "going out with" or "having a romantic relationship", and not in the sense of an appointment or rendezvous.
Do not confuse the "used to + verb" construction with the "be used to + verb" construction, which expresses a sense of repetitive action, or habit. For example, "I am used to skipping breakfast in the morning" which expresses that the speaker is accustomed to missing the meal of breakfast.
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