Use of Used as an adjective: to be / become / get used to

Used can also be used as an adjective meaning ‘accustomed/habituated’.  It is then followed or preceded by be, become or get in any tense and followed by the preposition to + noun/pronoun or gerund:

I am used to do it.

I am used to staying in the noisy room.

You will be used to living here.

She will get used to doing such type of job.

They will soon get used to come to the office in time.

I got used to driving in the busy road soon.

Here in the sentence ‘I am used to staying in the noisy room.’ refers that I don’t get any problem staying in the noisy room.

I am used to has the meaning  I don’t mind / I don’t feel trouble / It doesn’t give any disturbance to me.

USED is the past tense of a defective verb which has no present tense.

Affirmative: used not / usedn’t for all persons

Interrogative: used you/he/they? etc.

Negative interrogative: used you not/usedn’t you?

Negative interrogative can also be with did:

Didn’t I use to go there?

Did he use to come?

Didn’t he use to come?

Sometimes used is used to refer to the habitual fact in the past tense:

Remember USED has no present form.

I used to bathe in this river.

Once, I used to dislike her but now I like her.

 He used to kiss his wife when he went to the office.

I used to help him in my student life.

Incorrect and correct sentences ( Part-5 )

Incorrect: One should obey his parents.

Correct: One should obey one’s parents.

Incorrect: Mr. Salim has come here yesterday.

Correct: Mr. Salim came here yesterday.

Incorrect: The boy is absent for four days.

Correct: The boy has been absent for four days.

Incorrect: Riches does not stay long.

Correct: Riches do not stay long.

Incorrect:  I bought many furnitures.

Correct: I bought many furniture.

Incorrect: I asked why did he not come yesterday?

Correct: I asked why he did not come yesterday.

Incorrect:  The pen, which he gave me, is lost yesterday.

Correct: The pen, which he gave me, lost yesterday.

Incorrect: He says me fool.

Correct: He calls me a fool.

Incorrect: He lives in the boarding.

Correct: He lives in the boarding house.

Incorrect: He gave me false witness.

Correct: He gave me false evidence. 

Incorrect: Only such girls are wanted who have passed.

Correct: Only such girls as have passed are wanted.

Incorrect: Tell me how are you?

Correct: Tell me how you are.

Incorrect: The police has caught hold of the thief.

Correct: The police has caught the thief.

Incorrect: Each of the boys have passed the examination.

Correct: Each of the boys has passed the examination.

Incorrect: Sooner, the better.

Correct: The sooner, the better.

Incorrect: The man was hung for murder.

Correct: The man was hanged for murder.

Incorrect: Unless you do not work hard you will fail.

Correct: Unless you work hard you will fail.

Incorrect: It is raining for two hours.

Correct: It has been raining for two hours.

Incorrect: He said that he is ill.

Correct: He said that he was ill.

Incorrect: Which pen you wanted?

Correct: Which pen did you want?

The Shadow of A Father ( Story )

Katherine is a young lady, married to a young man, named Williamson works in California. She spends most of the time alone at home because her husband works at far-off place in New York. He stays near to his working place. Her husband comes to her once or twice in a month. For this reason she is not happy in her conjugal life. After a few years a baby comes up in their family. They named the baby David. It was a very nice infant. He also missed his father due to his absence at home. When David was five or six years old a man came to his mother and tells her that her husband died in the road accident and he saw him but could not see his face clearly. He had been buried there.

Katherine was shocked at this news but did not get so much hurt as she should have got. Because she did not get happiness in her marital life from her husband.  Many years have passed when she saw that her husband did not return home she took the news to be true but she did not marry again anyone. She shifted her present place to another and there David started his college education. After completing his education he got admitted into a university. There he completed his graduation. Now he has joined in a company. He works hard and finishes his work in time. In the meanwhile his mother has died.

He lives in a house alone. Suddenly an old man came to his house. He told him, ‘I am Mr. Williamson, husband of your mother and your father.’ David could not recognize him because he had seen him in childhood. He has forgotten the face of his father. Moreover his mother is also not alive now who could recognize him. So, he said, “My father had died about thirty years ago.” The old told him, “I did not die. I was rescued by a man and admitted into a hospital. After being cured I came to the place where you lived with your mother early but I did not find you, so I went back.”

The man told it also, “I looked for you everywhere a lot but I did not find. After a long search I got the information about you and I have come back here.” However David accepted him as his father. David lived in a house consisted of three rooms. So, he told him to stay with him. That man began to stay with him. David did all sorts of work for the happiness of his father. He made tea for in the morning, cooked nice recipe for him. He would buy nice clothes for his father from the market every week. Now he thinks he is now under the shadow of his father. This man has been living with him for a long time. But he did not help him in his work rather he ordered him to do all sorts of works.

Though David was confused at the behavior of the man, he did not say anything to him. He always thought if his mother were alive she would do all, he would not have to do these works for him. He sometimes thought about the man whether this man was actual father or not. He thought he lost his father when he was a child. Now he got him back now. But there was no relative who knows his father and could say details about him. He thinks it also that whoever this man is, he is getting the shadow of his father at least that he needed in his lonely life. He did a lot for the man but he was not satisfied with his deeds. He could not express his feelings to anybody. On the other hand his mother was also not alive that she could recognize his real father. He thinks, may be the man was looking for a shelter somewhere to stay at this age and has collected information about me from anyone and told me lie. However, he keeps searching to find out the real identity of his father stealthily.

Incorrect and correct sentences ( Part-4 )

Incorrect:  It is you who is to blame.

Correct: It is you who are to blame.

Incorrect:  He bought ten sheeps and five deers.

Correct: He bought ten sheep and five deer.

Incorrect: The teacher along with his students were present.

Correct: The teacher along with his students was present.

Incorrect: He said that he will go home.

Correct: He said that he would go home.

Incorrect: The man asked the boy who are you?

Correct: The man asked the boy who he was.

Incorrect: I am junior than you.

Correct: I am junior to you.

Incorrect:  The boy was innocent in it.

Correct: The boy was innocent of it.

Incorrect: He will give examination next year.

Correct: He will appear at the examination next year.

Incorrect:  He called me fool.

Correct: He called me a fool.

Incorrect:  This is slip of tongue.

Correct: This is a slip of the tongue.

Incorrect: He gave O’ Level examination in 2010.

Correct: He appeared at the O’ Level examination in 2010.

Incorrect:  Mr. Salman is the eldest man in the village.

Correct:  Mr. Salman is the oldest man in the village.

Incorrect: We should refrain to do it.

Correct: We should refrain from doing it.

Incorrect: The boy has lost the book yesterday.

Correct:  The boy lost the book yesterday.

Incorrect:  I have not never told him this.

Correct:  I have never told him this.

Incorrect:  A little learning is dangerous thing.

Correct:  A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Incorrect:  He is one of the most wisest men.

Correct:  He is one of the wisest men.

Incorrect:  The rice of Bangladesh is better than India.

Correct:  The rice of Bangladesh is better than that of India.

Incorrect: Why you are going there?

Correct: Why are you going there?

Incorrect:  What he said then?

Correct: What did he say then?

Use of it is time / high time

It is time + past subjunctive (unreal past)

It is time can be followed by infinitive:

It is time to start.

or

by for +object + infinitive.

It time for us to move forward.

It is time for us to earn money.

It is time for me to go to school,

It is time for me to buy the book.

It is time for us to go.

 or

by subject + a past subjunctive

It’s time we went.

It is time we prepared for the examination.

It’s time we were leaving/ going.

There is somewhat difference in meaning between the forms.

it is time + infinitive only refers that the right time has come.

It is time to go there.

It is time to join in the job.

It is time to read.

It is time to finish the duty.

it is time + subject +past subjunctive indicates that it is somewhat late.

high can be added to emphasize this idea.

It is high time + subject + v. past form + ob +extension.

It is high time we left the place.

It is high time I learnt the lesson.

It is high time we helped him.

It is high time we met the officer.

It is high time they took exercise.

It high time we wrote the notice.

Use of Other, Others and the other

Other is used before plural noun and is used with the persons and places.

Other people can help me in my crisis moment if you don’t want.

Other men are going with me.

I shall give my money to the other men.

Others is only used with persons not with any place.

He always blames others instead of his sister.

I you, her and all others in your class.

Thirty students out of forty came and others were absent.

The other is used with both singular and plural number.

I did not see him there I saw the other boy.

The other men and women joined the meeting except you.

She was gossiping with the others boys in the room.

She gave me the other thing not this.