Be able to - all tenses
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Be able to: all tenses - exercise 1

Complete the sentences with positive or negative forms of ‘be able to‘. Use correct tenses.



Our cat climb trees anymore because she was injured.

If you help us tomorrow, we finish on time.

I use my mobile since I updated the operating system. It helped.

We overslept. Fortunately, we catch the 7.30 train.

They are short of time. They renovate the house by the end of the year.

Before I found the instructions on the Internet, I fix the problem.

Sarah admit her mistake since they had an argument. What a pity!

Ouch, it hurts! I move my arm at all.

You can ask Tom. But I am afraid he translate the article till Friday.

No problem. We visit the castle by noon.

Josh eat five sandwiches for a snack. He is a big eater.

We enjoyed the online lesson after we join it.

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Be able to - all tenses

If we want to use 'be able to' in different tenses, we just change the tense of the verb 'to be' and add 'able to'.

Examples:

I am able to translate this article.
My brother was able to play the piano when he was six years old.
We will be able to renovate our house when we have enough money.
You haven't been able to answer my email for a week.
They informed my parents about the accident after they had been able to contact them.
We won't have been able to finish the project by the end of this week.

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