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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adults were able" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that adults had the capability or opportunity to do something in the past.
Example: "In the past, adults were able to access higher education more easily than they can today."
Alternatives: "adults could" or "adults had the ability".
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Thus, adults were able to compensate for poor larval conditions.
So while adults were able to walk down to burrows in the valley below, the tiny hatchling alligators simply froze in the winter cold.
In addition, R. dominica development and progeny production were assessed on seeds that adults were able to survive on for at least two weeks.
Only half of the American adults were able to see a doctor the same day that they became sick or the day after, a worse showing than in all the other countries except Canada.
He told the Independent on Sunday: "Before this, the general assumption was that adults were able to make all the vitamin D they needed from sunshine, and didn't need to have any dietary or supplementary intake.
His software was meant to simplify an exchange that might take place, several times a day, between young people: "Do I look cute in this?" Regrettably, adults were able to join in that conversation, too.
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Only about one-fourth of adults are able to read.
"It's just that adults are able to properly assess the risk," he said.
Elopiforms are coastal fishes, and adults are able to enter brackish or fresh water.
Shouldn't grown adults be able to ask the other person how they feel?
Adults are able to process both the native language soundtrack and the foreign language subtitles.
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