#37 Today’s expression
Didn’t you use to live in this neighborhood?
Conversation
W1 : (Helen runs into someone while walking.) Didn’t you use to live in this neighborhood?
-use : describing an action or state of affairs that was done repeatedly or existed for a period in the past.
-live : make one's home in a particular place or with a particular person.
-neighborhood : a district, especially one forming a community within a town or city.
W2 : I did! Helen? It’s amazing you still remember me.
-amazing : causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing.
-still : up to and including the present or the time mentioned; even now (or then) as formerly.
-remember : have in or be able to bring to one's mind an awareness of (someone or something that one has seen, known, or experienced in the past).
W1 : I have a very good memory.
-memory : the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.
-faculty : An inherent mental or physical power.
W2 : Haha! You sure do!
-sure : confident in what one thinks or knows; having no doubt that one is right.
W1 : Believe it or not, I know everyone in my apartment complex.
-Believe it or not : to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.
-complex : a group of similar buildings or facilities on the same site.
W2 : Is that so? Were you ever a teacher?
-ever : used for emphasis in questions and other remarks, expressing astonishment or outrage.
-teacher : a person who teaches, especially in a school.
W1 : No, teaching is not my thing.
-thing : an action, activity, event, thought, or utterance.
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