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17 Nov 2020
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Is this sentence correct?
"He used to wake up at 5 AM but now he'll sleep until 7 AM"
Is this sentence correct?
"He used to wake up at 5 AM but now he'll sleep until 7 AM"
"He used to wake up at 5 AM but now he'll sleep until 7 AM"
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- English (US)
This is correct. You switch tense halfway through, which is actually something a native speaker might do because we don't care about being consistent with tense. If you were consistent with tense, it would be "He used to wake up at 5 AM but now he sleeps until 7 AM." This works too.
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