188 MODALITY can C1 USE: PAST NEGATIVE, DEDUCTIONS 'can't' or 'cannot have' + '-ed' to make deductions. On iWeb: 1 CA N'T HAVE HELPED 61 The New York Times…
188 MODALITY can C1 USE: PAST NEGATIVE, DEDUCTIONS 'can't' or 'cannot have' + '-ed' to make deductions. On iWeb: 1 CA N'T HAVE HELPED 61 The New York Times…
Point 186 in MODALITY is defined as: Expressions with 'can' or 'can't' to give focus or add emphasis, such as 'as you can see', 'I can't say', 'I can tell…
Point 75 in MODALITY is defined as: negative question forms in main clauses and question tags. This is proving very hard to search for in corpora. They do not like…
There are at least 7 grammar points related to the negative form of 'can' in the category of MODALITY in the English Grammar Profile. Four of these cannot be differentiated…
Point 173 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: 'can' with an increasing range of adverbs (including 'easily', 'hardly', 'now', 'probably', 'sometimes', 'still') in the normal mid position after…
Point 137 in MODALITY is defined as: negative forms of 'can't' and 'cannot' to guess, predict and deduce. This point is an extremely difficult point to locate because it heavily…