fill in the blanks with suitable article I. I. arti stated that she a) ___ read at the age of three
answer is (could )
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the answer for this question is COULD
Arti stated that she could read at the age of three.
The question is wrong. It would be "Fill in the blanks with a suitable verb."
The sentence means that Arti, the female gender has stated to the narrator that she could able to read when she was only three years old.
1. Could is basically used as the past form of the tense of "can" when it means that somebody had the capacity to do something, or that something was workable: The Roman soldiers could march 30 miles in a single day.
2. Could is a kind of an auxiliary verb or a modal auxiliary verb.
3. We use could to discuss or speak about a period of past possibilities or past capacities and abilities.
4. Examples:
* They could reach there by bike. (= Maybe they will reach there by bike.)
* They could be at the parlor. (= Maybe they are at the parlor.)
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