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Mizansinha007 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Use of can

I can do the work.
What is the progressive sentence of the above one.
I guess, I can be doing the work. Is it right?
And besides,
I might be talking .....(something).I have seen this type of sentence but forgotten the last words. What does it mean by 2nd one?
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Assuming that "I can do the work" expresses general ability/possibility, I don't see an obvious progressive form, nor any reason to want to use one. "I can be doing the work" is possible, but it is not common, and it has a more complicated kind of meaning that needs a particular context. For example, it might mean "I can be getting on with this work while you do something else".

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  • Assuming that "I can do the work" expresses general ability/possibility, I don't see an obvious progressive form, nor any reason to want to use one.
  • "I can be doing the work" is possible, but it is not common, and it has a more complicated kind of meaning that needs a particular context.
  • For example, it might mean "I can be getting on with this work while you do something else".
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  • I don't know what "last words" you are asking for.
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Assuming that "I can do the work" expresses general ability/possibility, I don't see an obvious progressive form, nor any reason to want to use one.

"I can be doing the work" is possible, but it is not common, and it has a more complicated kind of meaning that needs a particular context. For example, it might mean "I can be getting on with this work while you do something else".

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Normally, "I can" means, I am able to do.
besides, What statement should be in continuous sense of "I can".
please help anyone...
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mizansinha007 What statement should be in continuous sense of "I can".
"I can" already has a continuous sense. If you can (do something), you are continuously able (to do something), just by the meaning of "can". If you can read, for example, you don't mean that you are able to read, then unable to read, then able to read, then unable to read. Once y
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