1.Mother Teresa_was born in 1910 in Macedonia. She __was a Catholic nun .She__opened the charity missions. Many people _wanted to help her and _started the missions in many other parts of the world . These days the missions __helped the poor and the sick.
2. Bill Gates _was from Seattle . He __started Microsoft . It _was the biggest and most successful computer software in the world. When he was thirteen, Bill Gates _went to expensive private school. After that Bill Gates _went to Harvard University , but he _didn't leave it. Before university Bill Gates _ started his company Microsoft . Today he _is a multimillionaire.
3. I learnt abouy him from the film "Brave heart ". He _lived in Scotland in the thirteenth centurу . When he _was about twenty, English soldiers came to Scotland and a war _started. The English _killed Scottish women and children .
"We use could for general ability. But if we want to say that somebody did something in a specific situation, we use managed to or was/were able to (not could)".
То есть,
мы используем could для выражения возможности или что-то сделать вообще, в целом. В то время как managed to используется для того, чтобы указать, что кому-то удалось что-то сделать в конкретной, "единичной" ситуации.
Сравните:
Jack was an excellent tennis player when he was younger. He could beat anybody. (Джек отлично играл в теннис, когда был моложе. Он мог обыграть любого) и Jack and Andy played a match yesterday. Andy played well, but Jack managed to beat him. (Вчера Джек и Энди играли (в теннис). Энди играл хорошо, но Джек смог (Джеку удалось) обыграть его)
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