Video lesson · Can / Could / Be Able to
Present Ability and Future Ability in grammar refer to how we express someone's current or potential capacity to do something. Present Ability describes what someone is capable of doing now. Future Ability describes what someone will have the capacity to do later.
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Can / Could
Be Able to
Skills
Unusual Ability
With Verbs of Senses
Theoretical Possibility
Permission / Prohibition
Requests
Offers
Deduction / Negative
Present Use / Summary
Possibility / Ability in the Past
Permission / Prohibition in the Past
With Verbs of Senses / Past
Past Skills
Possibility / Ability in the Past + Fact 
Past Use / Summary
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