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What does What is the difference between (I was to do that) and (I was going to that)?? mean?
What does What is the difference between (I was to do that) and (I was going to that)?? mean?
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"I was to do that" is a kind of formal phrase they might use in England but we almost never say in the U.S. We say "I was going to do that". The meaning is exactly the same for me except that "I was going to do that" is less formal.
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