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Podcast: Travel & Transport
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📝Grammar: 4B: Ability and possibility - can, could, be able to
**can** is a modal verb for ability and possibility. It has only one form, but we also use it with future meaning. For past ability and possibility, we use **could**. It is the past of **can** and also works in conditional sentences. For every other tense or form — the perfect, the infinitive, the gerund — there is no form of **can**, so we use **be able to** + infinitive. We sometimes use **be able to** in the present and past too, when we want to sound more formal. In the negative past, both **couldn't** and **wasn't able to** are possible.
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This is a B2 Upper-Intermediate (B2) English lesson from Muse English's daily series on 2026-10-02.
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