used to describe an action that had been intended but did not happen, The speaker was supposed to give practical advice for young musicians, but she focused on something entirely different., used in formal English to describe scheduled or timetabled events that are no longer necessary, Before the hurricane hit, the President had been due to meet her German counterpart. The conference was to be held in Tokyo but then it was called off., to make a polite suggestion for a present or future situation, We were hoping to meet up this summer, if you’re interested., when it is used with adverbs or phrases like constantly, always, continually, all the time, every day, etc., can be used to describe repeated past actions that you did not expect or you found annoying, When I was a kid, my mum was always telling me to take my elbows off the table., used to describe past habitual actions., My aunt used to send me to the shops to run errands for her. She would always let me keep any leftover change.

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