1. Can/Could Sally learn a long poem when she was four? 2. When Mrs. Rover was a teenager she couldn’t/can’t play the piano. 3. John says he could/can speak French. 4. What can/could Melody do when she was nine? 5. Yesterday Molly couldn’t/can’t take a book from the library. 6. Rita said she couldn’t/can’t learn that because she was busy.