1. USE OF CAN & CAN’T
By: Pandenglish
(Karen Cruz, Emmanuel Garcia, Laura
Salazar, Saiury Zapata, Vanessa Velez)

2. 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.

3. CAN
Can is an auxiliary verb, a modal auxiliary
verb. We use can to:
• Talk about possibility and ability
• Make requests
• Ask for or give permission

4. 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.

5. EXAMPLES
• I can draw very well • You can speak english

6. EXAMPLES
He can drive a car She can make dinner

7. 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.

8. 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".

9. EXAMPLES
She can't speak Chinese. I can't swim

10. Examples
They can’t sing the song He can’t run for long

11. EXAMPLE WITH CAN & CAN’T
• He can sing…
…but she can’t dance

12. THE END…