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Fold panda 963 Posted 7 years ago
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I am confuse what to use.

I was not able to give/gave?

please help. thank you Emotion: smile

  

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Fold panda: We always us the base form of a verb in the to-infinitive and also when there is a modal auxiliary. I was not able to give him money. The past tense is in the inflected main verb "be".

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  • Fold panda: We always us the base form of a verb in the to-infinitive and also when there is a modal auxiliary.
  • I was not able to give him money.
  • The past tense is in the inflected main verb "be".
  • " The infinitive is fixed in form.
  • It is always the base form of the verb.
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Fold panda:

We always us the base form of a verb in the to-infinitive and also when there is a modal auxiliary.

I was not able to give him money.

The past tense is in the inflected main verb "be". (I am / I was / I will be)
The infinitive is "to give." The infinitive is fixed in form. It is always the base form of the verb.

I am not able
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