MODAL VERBS CAN - COULD

PUEDO / NO PUEDO

• I CAN CYCLE

• YOU CAN SKATE.

• THEY CAN FISH.

• WE CAN SHOP.

• HE CAN SWIM

• SHE CAN DANCE.

• HE CAN´T PAINT.

• YOU CAN´T PLAY SOCCER.

• SHE CAN´T DANCE BALLET.

• I CAN´T PLANT FLOWERS.

• THEY CAN´T PLAY CHESS.

• WE CAN´T PLAY PIANO.

• CAN YOU PAINT?

• CAN HE PLAY A VIOLIN?

• CAN HE READ?

• CAN SHE COOK?

• YES, I CAN.

• NO, I CAN´T

• ·To show ability : I can sing

• To ask somebody to do something:

    Can you close the window, please?

• To ask for something:

    Can I have your pen, please?

• To ask for permission to do something?

    Can we play on the computer, please

• We use ‘could’ and ‘couldn’t’ to talk about our abilities in the past.

  She could play chess when she was seven.

  He could read when he was five.

  I couldn’t run when I was a baby.

• We also use could if we want to ask for permission ‘‘politely’’ or in a formal way.

• A: ‘Could I sit down here, please?’ B: ‘Yes, of course.’

• A: ‘Could I use your telephone?’ B: ‘Yes, you can.’

• A: ‘Could I borrow your bicycle?’ B: ‘No, I’m afraid not.’

• We often use could when we ask someone to do something in a very formal and polite way.

• Could you be quiet, please?

• A: ‘Could you pass me the sugar?’ B: ‘Certainly.’

• Could you lend me some money?

• Could you tell me how to get to the school?

• I am couldn’t read English books in my chidhood.

• Could to you carry these bags for me, please?

• My grandfather could speaks five languages.

• We couldn’t playing chess four years ago.

• Could Mozart writing music when he was a child?