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Hi,

" When I used to live in Srilanka, I used to play allot"

I know this sentence is gramatically incorrect as there is a use of "used to" twice in the sentence.

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" When I used to live in Srilanka, I used to play allot"

When I lived in Sri Lanka, I used to play a lot.
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