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(be) able to -- past tense

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Uploaded by on Mar 24, 2009

An English teacher shows how to use "was able to" and "were able to."

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  • The question of DID YOU GO TO THE STORE TODAY? answer: NO I WASN'T ABLE TO or NO I COULDN'T. My question why isn't it NO I DIDN'T? pls explain thanks

  • @agripinoy - You can also say "No, I didn't.

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  • Excuse me Mr-Paul, is there any base to follow ? really it's kind of confusion i don't know when to use be able to or can ...I think there are different positions that you can't use both of them .

    looking forward to hearing from you.

    Thank you!

  • hola arnulforompido were es para plurar y was es para singular.......si kieres decir were tendria que ser the machines were correcto

  • Why the machine WERE broken it's correct like this or thee machine WAS broken because machine is IT. can yu explain to me please why thank you for yoy video

  • explain .. great

    thanks

  • thanks a lot!!!

  • great!

  • thank you very much

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