Sentence understanding 1.Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! It was strange how up to that moment he had continued doing things the way he had always done them from boyhood. 2.He slipped back in time,as he did so easily nowadays ◆ He had recently got into the habit of recalling things in the past /of reminiscing/of letting his thoughts go back to the old days. 1515 Sentence understanding 1. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! w It was strange how up to that moment he had continued doing things the way he had always done them from boyhood. 2. He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays. w He had recently got into the habit of recalling things in the past /of reminiscing/ of letting his thoughts go back to the old days