You may recall that the rebels were able to draw on the support of over 20,000 troops. Currently the rebels have a population of nearly 5000. The rebels are focusing on taking control the entire rebel village.
Why is a post to two answers correct? Should change they have to refer to a situation rather than they can be used|whether a specific one event had to happen at a specific moment? In this sentence, the meaning be able and is correct, not could, in the example sentence: We were able to finish the football match before it started snowing too heavily.
By the way, this is a question from Advanced grammar in use. How do I know what I am missing? Why do
people ask questions nowadays?
If armed forces were to commit a massacre on 20k soldiers, what would happen if they had said nothing? In this case, the rebels could draw on the support of over 10,000 soldiers, but chose not to.
…and the rebels at Granada were defeated. Later in the battle, perhaps, during a battle which they were losing were able to draw on the support
of over 20000 troops and thus emerged victorious.
If armed forces were to commit a massacre on 20k soldiers, what would happen if they had said nothing? In this case, the rebels could draw on the support of over 10,000 soldiers, but chose not to.
…and the rebels at Granada were defeated. Later in the battle, perhaps, during a battle which they were losing were able to draw on the support
of over 20000 troops and thus emerged victorious.
Could is a conditional and past tense indicator of can but could
means both “were able to” and “would be able to” I
believe your confusion is involving the unique dual tense usage of this verb.
If armed forces were to commit a massacre on 20k soldiers, what would happen if they had said nothing? In this case, the rebels could draw on the support of over 10,000 soldiers, but chose not to.
…and the rebels at Granada were defeated. Later in the battle, perhaps, during a battle which they were losing were able to draw on the support
of over 20000 troops and thus emerged victorious.
If armed forces were to commit a massacre on 20k soldiers, what would happen if they had said nothing? In this case, the rebels could draw on the support of over 10,000 soldiers, but chose not to.
…and the rebels at Granada were defeated. Later in the battle, perhaps, during a battle which they were losing were able to draw on the support
of over 20000 troops and thus emerged victorious.
If armed forces were to commit a massacre on 20k soldiers, what would happen if they had said nothing? In this case, the rebels could draw on the support of over 10,000 soldiers, but chose not to.
…and the rebels at Granada were defeated. Later in the battle, perhaps, during a battle which they were losing were able to draw on the support
of over 20000 troops and thus emerged victorious.
Could is a conditional and past tense indicator of can but could
means both “were able to” and “would be able to” I
believe your confusion is involving the unique dual tense usage of this verb.
If armed forces were to commit a massacre on 20k soldiers, what would happen if they had said nothing? In this case, the rebels could draw on the support of over 10,000 soldiers, but chose not to.
…and the rebels at Granada were defeated. Later in the battle, perhaps, during a battle which they were losing were able to draw on the support
of over 20000 troops and thus emerged victorious.
If armed forces were to commit a massacre on 20k soldiers, what would happen if they had said nothing? In this case, the rebels could draw on the support of over 10,000 soldiers, but chose not to.
…and the rebels at Granada were defeated. Later in the battle, perhaps, during a battle which they were losing were able to draw on the support
of over 20000 troops and thus emerged victorious.
If armed forces were to commit a massacre on 20k soldiers, what would happen if they had said nothing? In this case, the rebels could draw on the support of over 10,000 soldiers, but chose not to.
…and the rebels at Granada were defeated. Later in the battle, perhaps, during a battle which they were losing were able to draw on the support
of over 20000 troops and thus emerged victorious.
