By Jacqueline Schaalje

Yup, more modals!

For can and could, when you mean that someone has an ability to do something, you can also use able to.

But: there are some cases where you’d prefer using one of the two.

Check out this infographic to learn about the details. And then do the quiz!

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Quiz

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Choose a form of can, could or able to. (Including negatives.)

1 What did you say? I ____________ hear you.

2 She ____________ cook, not even an egg.

3 ___________ you run the 100 meters in under 20 seconds?

4 We __________ take the 7:04 bus. It drove away in front of us.

5 Why _________ chimpanzees fly?

6 Why is it so dark? I ___________ see a thing in here.

7 Alcoholics are people who __________ stop drinking.

8 I ________ never understand what she says.

9 Look what the baby’s doing. He _________ stand!

10 When I bought my son that puzzle, he __________ solve it in three minutes.

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