Post #188

🔰Could 🔻‘Could’is used to make polite requests. We can also use‘can’for these but‘could’is more polite. 🔹Could you help me, please? 🔹Could you lend me some money? 🔹Could I have a lift? 🔹Could I bother you for a moment? ✨If we use‘could’in reply to these requests, it suggests that we do not really want to do it. If you agree to the request, it is better to say‘can’. 🔹Of course I can. 🔹I could help you if it’s really necessary but I’m really busy right now. 🔹I could lend you some money but I’d need it back tomorrow without fail. 🔹I could give you a lift as far as Birmingham. 🔻‘Could’is used to talk about theoretical possibility and is similar in meaning to‘might’. 🔹It could rain later. Take an umbrella. 🔹He could be there by now. 🔹Could he be any happier? 🔹It could be Sarah’s. @EnglishGrammarSecrets