simple past of can
Before I was blind, I could see very well.
conditional of can
I think he could do it if he really wanted to.
past participle of can
I haven't could sleep.
Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.
From Middle English coude, couthe, cuthe, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”) (compare related cūþ, whence English couth). Cognate with German kon...
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