Can & Can't

Can & Can't

​Modal Verbs

​ are auxiliary verbs that provide additional and specific meaning to the main verb of the sentence.

They not only appear in questions and negatives, but also in affirmatives.

​She can swim.

She can't breathe underwater.

She can win if she wants.

She can't swim when it's cold.

​Modal Verbs

• ​Don't change in number and genre

  ( they are the same for singulars and plurals, for masculine and feminine forms).

• Substitute 'DO' and 'BE', since they are auxiliary verbs as well.

• Express ability, possibility, permission, request, obligation, necessity, certainty, and willingness.

​Ability Modals

​ express an ability ( or lack of ) - something that one learned to do.

​Positive

​Negative

​Lara can swim.

​She has the ability/learned to swim.

​Peter can't paint.

​He doesn't have the ability or doesn't know how to paint.

​ can, can't

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Don't lend your car to him! He​

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drive!

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Lucca ​

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really paint!

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• Richard

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• go

• to

• space.

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• Alicia

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• read

• 10 books

• in a month.

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• Creamy

• can't

• see.

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• Gabriel

• can't

• sleep

• when he is sick.

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​Possibility Modals

To say if something is possible to be done ( or not to ).

​can, can't

​Anyone can win this competition. They are all very good.

​It's possible for everyone to win.

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​Number 5 can't win this competition because he missed the race.

​It's impossible for him to win.

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You ​

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eat at the bakery.

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drive anymore.

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Marisa ​

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sleep.

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Julia ​

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do anything.

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• Sorry son,

• I

• can't

• talk

• right now.

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• I

• can

• take

• you

• anywhere.

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• The

• kids

• can't

• play

• outside.

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• But,

• they

• can

• play

• inside.

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​Permission/Request Modals

is to ask if one is permitted to do something.

​Informal

​can

​Can you give me the cupcake?

​friends and family

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Tommy, ​

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you clean this room, please?

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• Can

• I

• have

• your

• phone number?

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