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Understanding the Context

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Key Insights

Box was founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. Box offers one central platform for cloud storage, file sharing, syncing, e-signatures, and collaboration — among other complex use cases. You can share files and folders and actively collaborate in real time with people inside and outside your organization. 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.

Final Thoughts

The use of can to ask or grant permission has been common since the 19th century and is well established, although some feel may is more appropriate in formal contexts. May is relatively rare in negative constructions (mayn't is not common); cannot and can't are usual in such contexts. Learn how to use CAN and CAN'T (CANNOT) in this English grammar lesson for beginners. We use can and can't to talk about ability, possibility, make requests, and ask for permission. We use can to make general statements about what is possible: It can be very cold here in winter. (= 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.