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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

can be able to

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00 I major in English at university.02br
00 In my university, there is a female professor who often says 'I can be able to do --'.02br
00 I think her sentence is gramatically wrong because it's redundant, but is there any dialect that uses 'can be able to'?02br
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00 Also, what do you think of a university English teacher using this kind of wrong sentences in front of her students?02br
00 I'm aware of her wrong sentences, but many of those around me don't seem to notice them.0-
  

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0She taught u no wrong, people use it. 02br 02br 00Through their use, I think that it may express yearning to do sth02br 02br 00Ex: If I had a laptop, I 01u 00could be able to02u 00 do the project better. )02br 02br 00* This is just my little knowledge, if anything wrong, please correct it for me.

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  • 0She taught u no wrong, people use it.
  • 02br 02br 00Through their use, I think that it may express yearning to do sth02br 02br 00Ex: If I had a laptop, I 01u 00could be able to02u 00 do the project better.
  • )02br 02br 00* This is just my little knowledge, if anything wrong, please correct it for me.
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0She taught u no wrong, people use it. If you search in google with that phrase, it will give you lots of result.02br
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00Through their use, I think that it may express yearning to do sth02br
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00Ex: If I had a laptop, I 01u00could be able to02u00 do the project better. ( But the truth is I don't have a laptop and I did the pro
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0 I don't know of any dialects that use such a construction. This is just a guess, but I think your teacher isn't aware that "can" and "could" aren't 100% interchangeable. Either that or she 01i00is02i00 aware, but hasn't realized that they aren't interchangeable in that particular pattern. I'd put my money on the latter.02br
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00If English isn't her
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0I think that was informal E0-
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00 I think her sentence is gramatically wrong 12blockquote
10I agree.02br
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00is there any dialect that uses 'can be able to'?12blockquote
10I have never heard of such a thing.02br
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00what do you think of a university English teacher using this
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0 Thanks for your replies.02br
00 She says 'I can be able to do --', not 'I could be able to do --'.02br
00 For example, when you say 'I can play tennis.', she says 'I can be able to play tennis.'.02br
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00 Also, 'will be going to do --' is one of her favorite phrases.02br
00 For example, when you say 'I will finish this by three.',
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0Just try not to pick these habits up from her.0-
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0 But why in google there's too many poeple speak like that? 0-
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0 Lots of people make mistakes. 0-
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01cite10Belly12cite10But why in google there's too many poeple speak like that?12blockquote
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00 Probably because bad English circulates like wildfire all around the world.02br
00 That's why I'd like to stop the professor from using the wrong sentences.0-
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0 Hi guys,02br
00by the way, "could be able to do something" should be ok, right? (using "could", not "can")02br
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00If I had a professor like yours I would probably kick her in the <<01i00insert a random part of the body here02i00>>.02br
00You remind me of all my past English teachers, I learned practically nothin
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