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Unit I can/could
Task1
Define the meanings of can/could while matching the items on the right to the items on the left.
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Can you play the piano?
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
Anyone can make a mistake.
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
Could you give me a hand?
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
Can I help you?
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
This bill can't be right.
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
I couldn't eat another thing!
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
You could have told me!
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
He couldn't have taken your car by mistake because he didn't have the key.
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
It couldn't have been better.
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
My mum used to insisit that we couldn't go out unti we'd tidied our bedroom.
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annoyance+unreality
impossibility
idiomatic
impossibility in the past
ability
request
theoretical possibility
deduction
prohibition in the past
offer
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