What's wrong in this sentence?

Question

What's wrong in this sentence?
I used to holding(wrong, choice of word or part of speech) a party on my birthday every year but this year, when my mother asked me if I wanted to hold a birthday party, I said no.

what's wrong with "holding"?

Answer 1

Holding is the present continuous tense. You need to use the past tense, used to hold, because you are telling us what you did before.. Your sentence should read,
I used to hold a party on my birthday every year but this year, when my mother asked me if I wanted to hold a birthday party, I said no.

Answer 2

It is a case ofwrong part of speech. Correct one is as under:

I used to hold a party on my birthday every year but this year, when my mother asked if I wanted to hold a birthday party, I said no.

Instead of word "hold" better word would be "Host"

Answer 3

It is a run on sentence. When a thought is complete so is the sentence. Use periods to separate thoughts.

The tense of the verb is incorrect.

The sentence should read: "I [used to hold / held] a party on my birthday every year. This year when my mother asked if I wanted to hold a party I said no.

Answer 4

Along with all the correct advice about not using the word "holding," and that "have" is a better choice, it's not necessary to say "birthday party" twice in the same sentence. You COULD say, "I'M used to HAVING a birthday party ..."

"I'm used to having a party on my birthday every year, but this year, when my mother asked me if I wanted to have one, I said no."

You could also say, "I usually have a birthday party ... "

Answer 5

What's wrong in this sentence?

I used to hold a party on my birthday every year, but this year, when my mother asked me if I wanted to hold (one), I said no.

have would be better than hold in both uses.

Answer 6

I used to hold a party on my birthday every year but this year, when my mother asked me if I wanted to hold a birthday party, I said no.
or
I used to have a party on my birthday every year but this year, when my mother asked me if I wanted to have a birthday party, I said no.

Holding is a paste tense, but it just doesn't fit the sentence

Answer 7

Words after ''to'' should be in the present tense (verb).
To hold, to laugh, to have, to give, to run, to play.....all in the present tense.
"when my mother asked me if I wanted to hold a birthday party, I said no."
Here, you already know how to use it (to hold) in its proper grammar.
Why not in the very first line?
---Examples:---
I am not holding a party this year.
I am not going to hold a party this year.
I do not want to hold a party this year.
---------------------

Answer 8

!!! :
i used to hold a party on my birthday every year.....etc
....after "used to" u always put the verb in the present tense,u can also say "i'm used to holding a party on my birthday"...in this case u can put the verb in the continuos tense.

Answer 9

Replace holding with hold.

Answer 10

"I used to hold," is the correct expression as you can see it at the bottom of your paragraph again.
when my mother asked me if I wanted to hold a bithday party, I said, "no."