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Understanding the Context

Don't worry yourself about me, I can take care of myself. I can't give you details because I don't actually have any details. The United States will do whatever it can to help Greece. We use can to make general statements about what is possible: It can be very cold here in winter.

Key Insights

(= It is sometimes very cold here in winter.) You can easily get lost in this town. (= People often get lost in this town.) We use can't or cannot to say that something is impossible: That can't be true. You cannot be serious. Level: intermediate. There are so many convenience foods that we buy everyday and never think about actually making them from scratch ourselves.

Final Thoughts

Butter and cheese are great examples of these items that many of our ... Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more. Can is usually used in standard spoken English when asking for permission. It is acceptable in most forms of written English, although in very formal writing, such as official instructions, may is often used instead: Persons under 14 unaccompanied by an adult may not enter.