Practice Exercise-2
Complete these sentences using can or could or can't or couldn't with a suitable verb from the list.
dance, learn, play, remember, run, see, speak, swim, type, walk, play, speak
I can't dance now but when I was younger I ____ all night.
When I was younger, I ____ 100 metres in 12 seconds.
She lost her job as a secretary because she ____ quickly.
My sister ____ foreign languages very fluently.
The doctor is very busy. She ____ you until tomorrow.
When she was a teenager, she ____ ten languages but now she has forgotten them.
He has a lot of energy. He ____ football for hours.
When people get drunk, they ____ in a straight line.
My grandfather ____ basketball very well when he was twenty.
Old people often ____ names or telephone numbers.
When we first lived in Paris, we ____ in French but later we learnt it.
When he was younger, he ____ across the lake in five minutes.
Answers:
could dance
could run
couldnt type
can speak
cant see
could speak
can play
cant walk
could play
cant remember
couldnt talk
could swim
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