{"id":1773,"date":"2017-01-22T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2017-01-22T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T17:02:10","slug":"can-or-be-able-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/can-or-be-able-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Can or be able to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study the sentence given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He will be able to solve this problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can express the same idea using can.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He can solve this problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u2018Will be able to\u2019<\/strong> is the simple future tense of <strong>\u2018can\u2019. \u2018Is\/am\/are able to\u2019<\/strong> is similar to \u2018can\u2019 and is used to express present ability.<strong> \u2018Was\/were able to\u2019<\/strong> is similar to \u2018could\u2019.<\/p>\n<h2>Exercise<\/h2>\n<p>Rewrite the following sentences using be able to.<\/p>\n<p>1. My mother can bake delicious cakes.<\/p>\n<p>2. When I was young, I could ride a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>3. Next year, Shyam can drive a car.<\/p>\n<p>4. He can walk on his hands.<\/p>\n<p>5. Sushma can speak English really well.<\/p>\n<h2>Answers<\/h2>\n<p>1. My mother <strong>is able to<\/strong> bake delicious cakes.<\/p>\n<p>2. When I was young, I <strong>was able to<\/strong> ride a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>3. Next year, Shyam<strong> will be able<\/strong> to drive a car.<\/p>\n<p>4. He <strong>is able to<\/strong> walk on his hands.<\/p>\n<p>5. Sushma<strong> is able to<\/strong> speak English really well.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Can\u2019 and \u2018be able to\u2019 are both possible in some cases. However, in some cases, only \u2018be able to\u2019 is possible.<\/p>\n<p>For example, \u2018can\u2019 is not possible in the simple future tense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One day, I <strong>will be able to<\/strong> find a good job. (NOT One day, I will can find a good job.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study the sentence given below. He will be able to solve this problem. We can express the same idea using can. He can solve this problem. \u2018Will be able to\u2019 is the simple future&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-be-able-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}