Verb

(head)

(can)

Before I was blind, I could see very well.

conditional of can

#

I think he could do it if he really wanted to.

I wish I could fly!

# (Used to politely ask for permission to do something).

# ( Used to politely ask for someone else to do something).

# (Used to show the possibility that something might happen).

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

# (Used to suggest something).

Verb

(head)

*{{quote-book, year=1914, author=I. Zangwill, title=Children of the Ghetto, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Vy midout you de movement vould crumble like a mummy in de air; be not such a fool-man. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers, title=Toaster's Handbook, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Hurriedly came the answer: "Mine frent, you surely vould not refuse me two per zent discount on a strictly cash transaction like dis?" }}

*{{quote-book, year=, author=Alice Maude Kellogg, title=Christmas Entertainments, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Head Cook : Of a truth, madame, I vould not have done so, madame, but my scullions have all gone, and I had none to guard ze Christmas pie to-night! }}