That Could Prevent Disaster - Away State Journal
After 9 fatal fires, Columbus firefighters warn simple steps could prevent many disasters
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Columbus firefighters are urging residents to take simple steps to prevent deadly house fires, saying many of this year's fatal blazes could have been avoided.
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We use could to ask for permission. Could is more formal and polite than can: Could I ask you a personal question?
The meaning of COULD is —used in auxiliary function in the past, in the past conditional, and as an alternative to can suggesting less force or certainty or as a polite form in the present. How to use could in a sentence.
Learn about the modal verbs can and could and do the exercises to practise using them.
You use could to talk about a possibility, ability, or opportunity that depends on other conditions. Their hope was that a new and better East Germany could be born.
Could is also used to talk about ability in the present, but it has a special meaning. If you say that someone could do something, you mean that they have the ability to do it, but they don't in fact do it.
