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После глаголов can и could всегда употребляется инфинитив без частицы to (can do, could take).
● I can teach you play the cello. — Я могу научить тебя играть на виолончели.
Для образования отрицательной формы к глаголу can добавляем частицу not — can’t или cannot. Could
в отрицательной форме — couldn’t или could not.
● I can’t teach you play the cello. — Я не могу научить тебя играть на виолончели.
При образовании вопроса can и could ставятся в начало предложения перед подлежащим, после
которого следует основной глагол:
● Can you teach me play the cello? — Можешь научить меня играть на виолончели?
+Синоним can и could — конструкция to be able to do smth (быть способным делать что-то).
–SOMEONE FAMOUS
Мы используем конструкцию can’t (couldn’t)
have done, когда мы уверены, что действие не
могло произойти в прошлом.
Exercises :
Упражнение 5. Underline the correct option.
1.Can/Could Sally learn a long poem by heart when she was four?
2.When Mrs. Rover was a teenager she couldn’t/can’t play the piano.
3.John says he could/can speak French perfectly well.
4.What can/could Melody do when she was nine?
5.Yesterday Molly couldn’t/can’t borrow a book from the local library because she hadn’t returned another
one.
6.Rita said she couldn’t/can’t learn that because she was busy.
Упражнение 6. Fill in can / can't/ could/ couldn't.
1) You don’t need to shout. I ______ hear you perfectly well. 2) We______ go to safari because the trip was too
expensive. 3) He eats in restaurants because he ______ cook. 4) I had an aisle seat on the plane, so I
______see the landscape below. 5) When we used to live in China, I______ speak some Chinese, but now
I______ say a word. 6) ______ you play the piano at the age of six? 7) He______ speak English so fast that
I______understand him (now). 8) I’m afraid, Nickolas ______talk to you now. He has to arrive at school in
time. 9) I______get a good mark in Literature because I didn’t know the theme. 10) I______retell my friend the
whole story because I had read it.
Exercises :
Упражнение 8. Вставьте will be able или won’t be able + to
When her sight is better, Melody ________ play the guitar again.
Max _________ eat sugar when the GP allows him.
The couple _________ catch the morning bus if they don’t get up much earlier.
Sally _________ go out to discos until she is 16.
Andy _________ hear better if he sits in the front row.