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Modal Verb CAN

Last updated over 2 years ago
3 questions

Complite the following excercises.

You can do this!

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6
Fill the gaps with CAN or COULD.

  1. _______ Sally learn a long poem by heart when she was four?
  2. When Mrs. Rover was a teenager she _______ play the piano.
  3. John says he _______ speak French perfectly well.
  4. What _______ Melody do when she was nine?
  5. Yesterday Molly _______ borrow a book from the local library because she hadn’t returned another one.
  6. Rita said she _______ learn that because she was busy.
Required
10
Put can, could, be able to in the correct form.
  1. Michael _______ now speak Norwegian rather fluently.
  2. Michael used to _______ speak Norwegian rather fluently.
  3. Nick _______ marry Lisa, but he _______ make her love him.
  4. Sally used to _______ eat a kilo of chocolate for lunch.
  5. Megan’d like to _______ surf very well.
  6. Luckily Melody _______ find a taxi.
  7. Jillian _______ drive when she was 12.
  8. Megan sighed. Fred _______ feel her hands shaking.
  9. The secretary _______ to type 150 words a minute.
  10. Children _______ enter this territory. It’s highly dangerous!
Required
7
Use can or be able to in the correct form.
  1. Children (нельзя) _______ discuss such things.
  2. Certainly, Nick (мог) _______ translate that article.
  3. (мог бы) _______ Nick show me that? (polite)
  4. Molly (не могла) _______ wait for us.
  5. You (можете) _______ get there in 10 minutes.
  6. The swimmer (смог) _______ reach the sea shore.
  7. Steven (мог) _______ work fifteen hours a day before his illness.