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Question
Look at these sentences.
- Animals cannot survive for long without water.
- So desert animals have to find different ways of coping.
The first sentence says what cannot happen or be done; the second tells us what must, therefore, be done, what it is necessary to do. Complete the sentence using cannot and have to/has to.
You —————————— reach the island by land or air; you —————————— go by boat.
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Solution
You cannot reach the island by land or air; you have to go by boat.
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