I used not to feel hungry.

"When I used to go to the office. I used to feel hungry when it wasn't the dinner time and I would stop feeling hungry by the dinner time or when it was time to eat dinner."

tufguy said:

"When I used to go to the office."

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I am pretty sure that by now you know that that is not a complete sentence.

Tufguy, after seeing how frequently you post questions (this OP was at 2:09), I'm going to suggest you post fewer questions, and take the time to more carefully proofread for basic errors you should already know. I think you're unable to digest and internalize feedback when you're so busy posting such a steady stream of questions.

Give yourself time to check your posts against feedback you've previously received. It's frustrating to see such a steady stream of questions when most of them contain feedback on issues we've corrected you on before, such as incomplete sentences, punctuation, and article usage (errors prevalent in the unanswered questions below).

You've been posting at a rate of a question every two minutes! There's no way to effectively digest feedback at that rate. Perhaps that's why you keep making so many basic errors.

I feel like this, too, has perhaps been suggested in the past.

"When I used to go to the office I used to feel hungry when it wasn't the dinner time and I would stop feeling hungry by the dinner time or when it was time to eat dinner."

Skrej said:

Tufguy, after seeing how frequently you post questions (this OP was at 2:09), I'm going to suggest you post fewer questions, and take the time to more carefully proofread for basic errors you should already know. I think you're unable to digest and internalize feedback when you're so busy posting such a steady stream of questions.

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Yes, I think you are right but I don't know what to do. I come up with a lot of questions everyday but now I post only four questions per day but I think I will have to reduce it to two. Could you please suggest me a way that can be helpful to me?

You were told more than once recently that 'every day' in this context has to be written as two words.

Okay I understand. Could you please check this? I mean I posted this so please check this. "When I used to go to the office. I used to feel hungry when it wasn't the dinner time and I would stop feeling hungry by the dinner time or when it was time to eat dinner."

tufguy said:

When I used to go to the office.

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See below.

emsr2d2 said:

I am pretty sure that by now you know that that is not a complete sentence.

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tufguy, what is your purpose of asking a question here if you pay no attention to the answers?

Matthew Wai said:

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tufguy, what is your purpose of asking a question here if you pay no attention to the answers?

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Sorry, actually I copied the first one by mistake instead of the second one in which I had done the ammendment.

Okay I understand. Could you please check this? I mean I posted this so please check this. "When I used to go to the office I used to feel hungry when it wasn't the dinner time and I would stop feeling hungry by the dinner time or when it was time to eat dinner."

I guess the following is your intended meaning.

'When I was an office worker, I used to feel hungry during office hours, and the feeling would disappear during mealtimes.'

I would prefer I used to feel not hungry.

The not should go with the adjective (hungry versus not hungry) but I think your way is okay (to feel hungry versus not to feel hungry).

There are other, perhaps better ways of expressing this, of course.

In descending order of naturalness:

I didn't use to feel hungry....
I used not to feel hungry....
I used to feel not hungry....

The last seems extremely unnatural to me.

You will often see the first written didn't used to. This is a mistake.

I used not feel hungry ...

emsr2d2 said:

I used not feel hungry ...

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Did you drop a to there somewhere?

Nope.

GoesStation said:

In descending order of naturalness:

I didn't use to feel hungry....
I used not to feel hungry....
I used to feel not hungry....

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I feel that all three make sense but the second is the least natural. The use naturally wants to connect to the to.

The problem with the first (didn't use to) is that it's a negation of the habit, not the hunger. So it has a slightly different meaning despite sounding natural. I think Tufguy is saying there was a habit, of being hungry, then of that hungriness disappearing.