What is the differences between use "would" vs "used to" I used to play football when I was a child. I would play football when I was a child.

I understand how the phrase "used to" can describe something that was done in the past: When I was growing up, my parents used to read to me at bedtime. My dad used to take the family out for ice cream on Sundays in the summertime. Although these sound fine in conversation, when I see...

Would anybody like to explain the following problems that I face while I read the following sentences? " Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor -- he who fathered the...