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    The document provides 8 sentences with blanks to be filled in with "could" or "couldn't" based on whether the actions were possible in the past or present. The sentences describe various physical, technical, and permission-based abilities over time, such as running speed, seeing stars at night, dancing skills, understanding languages, imagining the internet, accessing locations, following curfews, and playing games. Filling in the blanks correctly requires determining whether each action was possible in the past context provided or in the present.

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    55 Past Ability

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    The document provides 8 sentences with blanks to be filled in with "could" or "couldn't" based on whether the actions were possible in the past or present. The sentences describe various physical, technical, and permission-based abilities over time, such as running speed, seeing stars at night, dancing skills, understanding languages, imagining the internet, accessing locations, following curfews, and playing games. Filling in the blanks correctly requires determining whether each action was possible in the past context provided or in the present.

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    55 Past Ability

    Fill the Blanks with Could or Couldn’t

    1) I can only run slowly now. When I was younger I


    could
    ____ run quickly.

    2) Before all the new buildings, you could


    ____ see lots of
    stars at night. Now you can only see a few.

    3) Before she took ballet lessons she couldn’t


    _____ dance very
    well. Now she’s excellent.

    4) If youcouldn’t
    ____ understand Arabic yesterday, you
    probably can’t understand it now. It takes practice.

    couldn’t imagine a world


    5) In 1990, most people ______
    connected by the Internet. These days, it’s hard to
    imagine a world without it.

    6) A long time ago Koh Kret wasn’t an island. You could


    ____
    walk to it. Now you have to get a ferry.

    7) When I was 14, I could


    ____ go outside at night but I
    couldn’t
    ____ go far from the house. Now I can go anywhere.

    8) Write
    8) When 1 sentence
    I was aboutplay
    7 I couldn’t something yougames,
    shooting couldn’tbut
    do now
    I can play previously
    whatever Ibut you can do now.
    want

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