Exploring Grammar

PERMISSION
 PERMISSION
• We use:

CAN, COULD and BE ALLOWED TO

…
to talk about permission.
 CAN

• You CAN buy a handgun in the USA,

if you´re 18.
 CAN / COULD
• We use CAN and COULD + verb, without
To.

Present:
you can buy a gun in the USA.

Past:
You ______ _____ slaves at markets.
 COULD
Could is the past form of Can.

• In the 19th century, you COULD buy

slaves at markets.
 CAN´T / COULDN´T
• Can´t and couldn´t are the negative form
of Can and Could.
Ex:

• In Chile, you can´t smoke in public places.

• The New World goverment decided that

the problem couldn´t continue.
 Answers: Football rules around the
world
Football (Soccer )

• A team can´t have over eleven players on

the pitch at the same time.

2. Players _____ use their feet and their

heads.

3. Players _____ use their hands.

 Answers: Football rules around the
world
American Football

3. Players ______ throw the ball in front

of them.

5. A player ______ attacks someone

without the ball.

7. Players _____ use their hands.

 Exercises: Could
1. When I was younger. I _____ run very
fast.
2. I was tired las night but I _____ sleep.
3. Andrés has a party las week but paul and
Jenny ______ come.
4. _____ you travel alone when you were a
child?
No, I ________ .
 PERMISSION

• We use:

BE ALLOWED TO …

to talk about permission.

 BE ALLOWED TO
• Muslims AREN´T ALLOWED TO drink
alcohol.

• In Iran, women AREN´T ALLOWED TO go

to football matches.

• At the end of 19th century, women

WEREN´T ALLOWED TO vote.
 BE ALLOWED TO

• You´ll have to remember the verb

To Be in its present and past forms,
to understand and use Be allowed
to.
 BE ALLOWED TO
(Present form)
•AFFIRMATIVE •NEGATIVE

AM : I AM NOT
IS : He, she, it ISN´T
ARE : you, we, they AREN´T

Ex: Ex:
He is allowed to drink She isn´t allowed to do
alcohol. anything without her
mother´s permission.
BE ALLOWED TO
(Past form)
AFFIRMATIVE

WAS IS
I- he- she- it

WERE ARE
you- we- they
BE ALLOWED TO
(Past form)
NEGATIVE
WAS WASN´T
I- he- she –it

WERE WEREN´T
you- we-they
 BE ALLOWED TO
• We use Be allowed to + verb.

Present
Muslims aren´t allowed to drink alcohol.

Past
In the past, women _____ ______ ___
vote.
 Exercises
• Complete with Be allowed to.

3. When Tom and Peter were younger, they

_____ use long hair

5. When I was fourteen ,I _______ stay

after midnight.(x)

7. Juliette ____________ go out with

friends.