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EF Circe the forms that can be used in each sentence. If both forms are correct,
circle them both.
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8 | won't be /wosn'
dont help me
We cou 9 We couldn't / werent oble to
museum becau becaure we didn't have her number.
nt haven been able to write
report yet
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