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BeginStudent Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

I have question about present prefect.

Neil can't .... tennis. He's broken his arm.
a.to play
b.playing
c.play

What is the correct answer?
I think b , because in the second sentence we have present perfect simple and it comes with present progressive ...

Thanks
  

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Hi, Neil can't .. tennis. He's broken his arm.

  • Hi, Neil can't ..
  • tennis.
  • He's broken his arm.
  • play What is the correct answer?
  • C.
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Hi,

Neil can't .. tennis. He's broken his arm.

a.to play
b.playing
c.play

What is the correct answer?


C. With 'can', you need the base form of the verb.

eg We say 'I can speak English', but not 'I can speaking English'.

B
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Are you really?
That's mean always i have "can" in the sentence after it will come "verb with base form without matter which time is it ?"

Thanks.
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Hi,

I was speaking of the type of sentence you gave us.

You can say 'can' with other tenses, eg He can have cooked dinner. eg He can be cooking dinner.

Try to write a few more sentences, and I'll comment on them for you.

Clive
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Okay .
I want to say something about my sentence :
I can say that : "Neil isn't playing tennis.He's broken his arm.
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«That's mean always i have "can" in the sentence after it will come "verb with base form without matter which time is it ?"»

If you want to put it into another tense, that should be encoded in the form of "can":
«When I was young I could type 300 symbols per second», "type" is in the base form.
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That's mean always i have "can" in the sentence ...

The above should be:
That's mean always I have "can" in the sentence ...
In English we always write 'I' .
In French and Russian you could write in simple letters.

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