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       Exercise: multiple choice
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       Exercise: gapfill
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    Conditionals

    Future tenses

    Habits

    Passive forms

    Past tenses

    Phrasal verbs

    Present perfect

    Present tenses

    Relative clauses

    Reported speech

    Reporting verbs

    Wishes and regrets


Ability multiple choice exercise

Click on the button next to what you think is the correct answer. There may be more than one possibility.

After doing this exercise you could try the gapfill version, which is more or less the same.

 

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1   __________ speak a foreign language is always useful when you go abroad.

Be able to
Being able to
Can
I can

2   I __________ touch my toes since I started drinking beer.

can't
am not able to
couldn't
haven't been able to

3   You must __________ swim if you want to come on the boating holiday with us.

can
be able to
to be able to
will be able to

4   There was a fire in his office but he __________ escape through a window.

can
could
could to
was able to

5   My grandfather was an excellent athlete. He __________ run a mile in just over four minutes.

can
could
couldn't
was able to

6  The doctor says he will never __________ play tennis again after his accident.

can
could
be able to
to be able to

7   After his car crashed he was so confused that he __________ tell the police who he was or where he was going.

could
couldn't
didn't could
wasn't able to

8   I live alone because I like __________ come and go as I please.

I can
to can
being able
to be able to

9  I had saved up enough money so I __________ gone on holiday, but I decided to paint my flat instead.

can have
was able to
could have
was able to have

10  The police ran after the burglar, but she __________ get away from them.

was able to
could
has been able to
was being able to


This exercise was made using the software materials available on the Makers website at Swarthmore. It's a free service and there are loads of different types of exercises you can make. Highly recommended if you're designing your own website.

 

 

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