Break a habit/Get rid of a habit/ Remove a habit.

[Ashraful Haque]

When talking about habits which ones are more natural/colloquial?

- Break a habit/Get rid of a habit/ Remove a habit.
- Form a habit/ Develop a habit/ Start a habit.

 

[emsr2d2]

When talking about habits, which ones are more natural/colloquial?

- Break a habit/Get rid of a habit/Remove a habit.
- Form a habit/Develop a habit/Start a habit.

See above. Green = use. Red = don't use.

I almost marked "Start a habit" as possible but I changed my mind. You can start doing something, hoping that it might become a habit but that's not the same thing. For example, you can say "I'm trying to get into the habit of getting up at 6am to do some yoga before breakfast".

Remember that we don't put a space before or after a forward slash.

 

[Ashraful Haque]

See above. Green = use. Red = don't use.

I almost marked "Start a habit" as possible but I changed my mind. You can start doing something, hoping that it might become a habit but that's not the same thing. For example, you can say "I'm trying to get into the habit of getting up at 6am to do some yoga before breakfast".

Remember that we don't put a space before or after a forward slash.

An IELTS question says "Why do you think it's so hard for people to change bad habits?"
I know this kind of book/lesson isn't always meant for teaching natural English. Is 'change a habit' natural?

 

[Ashraful Haque]

I have another question. While answering the question about bad habits I said:
"Bad habits develop over time."
I wonder if I should've "We develop bad habits over time."

 

[GoesStation]

An IELTS question says "Why do you think it's so hard for people to change bad habits?"
I know this kind of book/lesson isn't always meant for teaching natural English. Is 'change a habit' natural?

Yes.

 

[Phaedrus]

When talking about habits which ones are more natural/colloquial?

- Break a habit/Get rid of a habit/ Remove a habit.

You can also speak, idiomatically, of kicking a habit.

He started smoking a year ago and can't kick the habit.

 

[Barman]

*Not a teacher*

We can also say, "Give up" this bad habit.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I have another question. While answering the question about bad habits I said:
"Bad habits develop over time."
I wonder if I should've "We develop bad habits over time."

Either way is fine. They're both natural, and they mean the same thing.

 

[Tarheel]

If you stop doing something you break that. Saying you want to change that habit seems to mean you want to substitute a different habit for it.