MODALITY
1. (ABILITY)
a) can or am/is/are able to + V (present time/ability)
x
cannot or am/is/are not able to (present time/lack of ability)
örnek: He is incredibly talented. He can learn/is able to learn any instrument in no time.
I cannot learn/am not able to learn to cook no matter how hard I try. I always seem to do something wrong whenever I try a new dish.
b) could (past time/general ability)
x
couldn’t (past time/lack of ability)
was/were able to + V (past time/specific ability)
x
couldn’t or wasn’t/weren’t able to (past time/lack of specific ability)
örnek: When my grandmother was a young woman, she could walk for hours but now that... Read More