uso de can y can't

2. 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 is an auxiliary verb, a modal auxiliary
verb. We use can to:
• Talk about possibility and ability
• Make requests
• Ask for or0 give permission

4. 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. • The bird can fly • The fish can swim

6. 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.

7. 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".

8. The lion can’t bark. the cat can’t fly

9. • The dog can
run…
…but the turtle can’t
run

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