- Good restaurants around dinner time. It's hard to find a
seat because there are so many people. - When little Annie , her father gave her a bottle and put her
to bed. - I left when Ellen and Joe began to argue. I never in
other people's quarrels.
10-10 Using be usedlaccustomedto and get usedlaccustomed to
I GET USED/ACCUSTOMED TO
(a) I am used to hot weather.
(b) I am accustomed to hot weather.(c) I am used to living in a hot climate.
(d) I am accustomed to living in a hot climate.
(e) I just moved from Florida to Siberia. I
have never lived in a cold climate before,
but I am potting used to (awtomed
to) the cold weather here.(a) and @) have the same meaning: "Living in a hot
climate is usual and normal for me. I'm familiar with
what it is like to live in a hot climate. Hot weather isn't
strange or different to me."
Notice in (c) and (d): to (a preposition) is followed by the
-ing form of a verb (a gerund).
In (e): I'm gemng used tolmustomed to = something is
beginning to seem usual and normal to me.0 EXERCISE 26. BE USED/ACCUSTOMED TO. (Chart 10-10)
Direceions: Complete the sentences with be used to, a5irmative or negative.- Juan is from Mexico. He is wed to hot weather. He iw't wpA to
cold weather.. : q.. A' , , ., '8.. ' , , ,. , , - Alice was born and raised in Chicago. She living in a big
city. - My hometown is NewYork City, but this year I'm going to school in a town with a
population of 10,000. I living in a small town. I
living in a big city. I. ,I{< - We do a lot of exercises in class. We doing exercises.
Complete the sentences with be acfustomsd to, affirmative or negative.
NOTICE: accustomed is spelled with two "c"s and one "m."- Spiro recently moved to Canada from Greece. He IS arcwtowed to
eating Greek food. He - ~SR I t accwtoweA to eating Canadian
foodu ~i:jr;-tic :ri:; .-..:.I, ,: ,!: :r ,.. ;i:.~:j.. ;, - I always get up around 6:00 A.M. I getting up
early. I sleeping late.