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'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'

6 min • 10 juni 2025

Learn key words and phrases to talk about ability in the present and the past.

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Senaste avsnitt

'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'

Senaste avsnitt

Phrasals

Quantifiers

Present perfect continuous

Present tenses

'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'

'Used to' and 'would'

Will, going to, might

Question tags

Present perfect and past simple

State verbs

The second conditional

The first conditional

Present and past passives

Indirect questions

Tenses

Too, very, enough

Subject questions

‘May’, ‘might’ and ‘could'

Defining relative clauses

The present perfect with ‘just’, ‘already’ and ‘yet’

Comparatives and superlatives

The present perfect with 'for' and 'since'

The present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’

Verb patterns

So, such, enough, too

-ing and -ed (Participle) Clauses

Future perfect

Linking devices of contrast

Conditionals review

Used to, be used and get used to

Future continuous and be + infinitive

4 types of phrasal verbs

Narrative tenses

Adverb position 2

Relative clauses

Talking about the future

The definite article with abstract uncountable nouns

Adverb position

Comparatives and superlatives

Active and passive voice

Reported speech

Linking devices: cause and effect

The third conditional

Adjectives and adverbs

The past perfect

Modals of deduction and speculation

First and zero conditional

Phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs

Quantifiers

Present perfect continuous

Present tenses

Subject questions

'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to'

Will, going to, might

Question tags

Present perfect and past simple

State verbs

The second conditional

First Conditional

Present and past passives

Indirect questions

Tenses

Too, very, enough

Subject questions

Used to and would

Will, going to, might

Question tags

Present perfect and past simple

State verbs

The second conditional

First Conditional

Passive voice

Indirect questions

Tenses

Too, very, enough

Subject questions

'Used to'

'May', 'might' and 'could'