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Can
Can expresses ability or informal permission. It never takes -s in the third person and is always followed by a bare infinitive: he can go, never "he cans" or "he can to go". The negative is cannot.
Examples in context
I can swim very well.
I can swim very well.
She can speak three languages.
She can speak three languages.
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