Modal Error Correction: Have to/ Had to

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When you want to say that you were obliged to be inactive (to do nothing), you should say, "I had to do nothing."

When I was sick in the hospital, the doctor told me to keep still. I had to do nothing for a week.

When you want to say that there was no obligation to be active, you should say, "I didn't have to do anything."

As a child, I wasn't required to work. I didn't have to do anything.
Now that I am an adult, I have to work to get money. When I was a child, I to do to get money because my parents gave me an allowance.