USE OF CAN & CAN’T

By: Pandenglish(Karen Cruz, Emmanuel Garcia, Laura Salazar, Saiury Zapata, Vanessa Velez)

CAN & CAN’T

The defective verb "Can" is the Spanish for "power" this verb is widely used in English to express the following:

Possibility of certain events.

1. The ability or capacity of people / things.

2. To request / grant permission.

3. To order / offer things.

CAN

Can is an auxiliary verb, a modal auxiliary verb. We use can to:

• Talk about possibility and ability

• Make requests

• Ask for or0 give permission

STRUCTURE OF CAN

The basic structure for can is:Subject + auxiliary verb can + main verb

Notice that:• Can is invariable. There is only one from:

Can• The main verb is always the bare infinitive.

EXAMPLES

• The bird can fly • The fish can swim

CAN’T, CANNOT

This type of negative sentences nature preserves the properties of action verb that affirmative sentences, that is, the verb does not change depending on the person from whom you talk to.

STRUCTURE OF CAN’T

Pronoun / name + can’t + action verb + complement

• To form the negative we add "not" after can to form one word: cannot.

• We can also contract the negative to form can't. (can't = cannot)

• Note: It is very common in English (speaking and writing) using the contraction "Can not" instead of "Can not".

EXAMPLES

The lion can’t bark. the cat can’t fly

EXAMPLE WCAITH N & CAN’T

• The dog can run…

…but the turtle can’t run

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