Learn can and could for ability - Can could and able to for ability

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hello students welcome back today's lesson is  about how to use can could and able to for ability  
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you can use can and could for general ability  to describe a general ability in english  
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for the present tense talking about now  we use can to talk about the present  
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or general ability for example i can do something  i can read french but i can't speak it be able  
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be able can often be used here but i'll explain  that later in the lesson the future after now  
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usually we use will be able to  to talk about future ability  
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for example i'll be able to speak french in a  few months but we can use can if we are deciding  
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something now about the future so deciding  now about something in the future for example  
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i don't have time now but i can meet you  later tonight here's an example as a question  
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can you come to my house on sunday the past before  now we use could for general ability to show that  
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somebody could do something at any time whenever  she or he wanted was able or were able is also  
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possible here example she could ride a bike  when she was five years old or we could say  
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she was able to ride a bike when she was five  years old here's another example my father  
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could speak four languages we don't normally  use could to say that somebody succeeded  
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in doing something on just one occasion for this  we use was able or were able or we could use  
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the word succeeded in something for example how  many tomatoes were you able to get we don't want  
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to use could you get here we don't want to  say how many tomatoes could you get so maybe  
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you just got home from shopping for food i can ask  you how many tomatoes were you able to get on this  
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one shopping trip how many tomatoes were you able  to get here's an example using succeeded succeeded  
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in after several tries i succeeded in climbing the  mountain let's look at could used for particular  
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occasions in the past in certain cases we can use  could to say that someone was able to do something  
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on one occasion we can use could with the words  see hear taste feel smell understand remember  
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and guess i could smell the flowers i could  understand everything the teacher said  
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this can also happen in subordinate clauses like  i'm so glad that everyone could come could with  
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conditional use could can be used to mean would  be able to for example i could get a better job  
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if i spoke another language right i  don't speak another language but if i did  
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i could get another job now let's look at could  have we use a special structure to talk about  
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some unrealized past ability this is to say that  a person was able to do something but they didn't  
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try it for example he could have married anybody  he wanted to here he didn't try to get married  
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but he could have gotten married if he tried  we can also use could have passed structure  
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to criticize people for not doing something for  example you could have fixed the broken door  
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why didn't you could have past  structure can also be conditional  
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for example i could have won the contest if i had  tried i didn't try but if i had tried i could have  
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won the contest so now you know more about how to  use can could and able to for ability and that you  
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can use canon could for general ability thanks so  much for watching i'll see you in the next video
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