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The speaker's attitudes and intentions Can, may, must and want to

Ability

Can someone do it?

modal verb

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Ability tells us what someone can do, whether learned or not. It covers learned skills as well as what someone's body or mind allows them to do. Languages express it with helper verbs, endings, or ordinary phrases, and some have no special form for it. Unlike Permission, Ability concerns what someone can do, not what they are allowed to do.

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Check whether the message says someone has the skill or capacity to do something, rather than merely being allowed to do it.

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