Switching a 220v outlet to a 110v outlets

You can but only if a neutral is run in the drop. The cabling will be marked with something like 12/3 where the “3” indicates three conductor wires + ground.

Most of the times when they run 220, they don’t also run the neutral in the wiring from the panel since it’s more copper to do so. Instead it’s usually two hot wires on opposite phases creating 220V between the two + a ground wire. This cabling will be marked 12/2 or similar where “2” indicates two conductor wires + ground.

FWIW. Never use ground as a neutral. Ground is for safety only.

If there are two hots, a neutral, and a ground then yes you can create two 110 circuits.

Otherwise, you can change the breaker to 110V and rewire the outlet to 110V with one of the previous hot wires fed to the neutral bar in the panel…

The bottom image illustrates the 220V relative to a neutral wire (white) where L1 and L2 are opposite phases of 110V (creating 220V between them):
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