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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:32 pm
Post subject: glad you could make it |
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I've heard of 'I'm glad you could make it'
I'd like to know of usage of 'could'
when can we use 'could' like those below?
'You could peel some vegetables for me'
'you could be mine' |
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Donna Richoux
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:03 pm
Post subject: Re: glad you could make it |
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<sdman2000@naver.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I've heard of 'I'm glad you could make it'
I'd like to know of usage of 'could'
when can we use 'could' like those below?
'You could peel some vegetables for me'
'you could be mine'
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I read it as being the past tense, in the sense that "making it" means
"arriving, perhaps with difficulty," not just "being here." "I'm glad
you were able to make it."
A more simple present/past example:
I can drive a car.
I could drive when I was 16.
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Best -- Donna Richoux |
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Troy Steadman
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:40 pm
Post subject: Re: glad you could make it |
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sdman2000@naver.com wrote:
| Quote: | I've heard of 'I'm glad you could make it'
I'd like to know of usage of 'could'
when can we use 'could' like those below?
'You could peel some vegetables for me'
'you could be mine'
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This is a very natural way of speaking or writing English.
'You could peel some vegetables for me'
....asks the person to do it but amiably. We won't take offence if
he/she declines.
'No no! That's your job!"
'you could be mine...
....if you play your cards right!' |
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