Talk:Habitual aspect

We used to do that every Monday in 1974.

It's claimed that this sentence is not grammatical. Is this example taken from the cited source, Comrie's Aspect, or was it constructed by the initial Wikipedia contributor? I'm asking because I don't have access to the source unless I make a trip to the library and either way it reads fine, as in "I used to go to church every Sunday in 1970". Alternative sentences which may read better in some contexts so as to remove ambiguity and change emphasis are "We used to do that every Monday in the year 1974" or "In 1974, we used to go to school every Monday". Therefore we need a better example of a too specific time indicator from Comrie. Thus I've replaced this sentence with "We used to fly a kite at 3pm yesterday" which is definitely not grammatical since it specifies a single point in time that can't entail a habitual aspect as oppose to referring to any period or duration in time as in "We used to fly a kite everyday at 3pm" which is meaningful and grammatical. --Modocc (talk) 15:25, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) According to my notes on Comrie, "We used to do it every Monday in 1974" is a quote from Comrie as an invalid construction. To my ear it sounds borderline okay but a little odd. Loraof (talk) 15:32, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Irish

it's we're mentioning Hiberno English, this page needs a more prominent mention of Irish, where that do be comes from Igalic (talk) 12:40, 30 October 2023 (UTC)