Question

Necesito ayuda para resolver el siguiente ejercicio

ABILITY AND POSSIBILITY IN PAST WITH COULD FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH COULD OR COULDN’T (COULD NOT)

EXAMPLES:

A. I COULD UNDERSTAND HIS EXPLANATION EASILY BECAUSE HE WAS USING EXCELLENT EXAMPLES. (Yo pude endenter su explicación fácilmente porque el estuvo usando excelentes ejemplos)

B. SHE COULDN’T SPEAK ENGLISH WELL WHEN SHE FIRST ARRIVED IN
ENGLAND. (Ella no podía hablar inglés bien cuando llegó por primera vez a Inglaterra)

1. Because the report was in Chinese, I ____________ read it.

2. I ____________ bake a cake because I didn’t have any sugar.

3. We ____________ go to California last week because all of the airlines were on strike.

4. I ____________ get into the theater free because I knew the owner.

5. She ____________ go to work yesterday for only a couple of hours.

6. I ____________ understand him because he was speaking with a thick foreign accent.

7. I ____________ carry the package home because it wasn’t heavy.

8. He ____________ drink any alcohol while he was taking penicillin.

9. I ____________ call anyone last weekend because my phone was out of order. (Out of
order means not working. The expression is most often used in reference to telephones,

elevators, and doors.)

10. he ____________ go to the party yesterday because he wasn’t working.

11. Our daughter
____________ vote in the last election because she wasn’t old enough.

12. Even though she ____________ go to the party, she decided to stay at home.

13. I ____________ believe myself when I made that foolish mistake.

14. He ____________lift anything heavy while he was having trouble with his back. He

____________ carry anything, either.
15. My parents ____________ stay with me on their visit to New York because I have a

very large apartment.

16. We ____________ take the elevator because it was out of order.

17. We ____________ buy any alcohol for the party because it was Sunday. We

____________ buy only soda.

18. Our little boy ____________ speak well until he was about four.

19. Because he speaks English very well, he ____________ get a job right away when he

arrived in London.

20. We ____________ drive out to the desert last weekend because our car wasn’t

working.

21. I ____________ cook dinner because my stove wasn’t working.

22. When he arrived in the United States, Pierre ____________ enter the university right

away because his score on the entrance examination was very high.
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