What is the meaning of u00abcanu00bb in “can” and “be relevant in this sentence?
Cease-taking driving is illegal. You must pass a basic test before you can get a driving licence.
Can / use /
give a signal that certain things are possible
- right now and can happen? OALD gives this signal.
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When I was a boy in the 1950s the schoolmarms insisted that can must be used only for possibility and ability (your sense 1) and may must be used for permission (your sense 4). What is the sense of use? A friend recently advised me that “the language had already moved past the schoolmarms, and people everywhere in the englisch-speaking world used can in both senses.
After all, this distinction is preserved only when contexts where permission and possibility are
contrasted: No doubt you can drive at 60 mph in a residential neighborhood, but you may not.
In contexts such as that that you provide, there is no contrast between permission and possibility: because the license is issued by a public authority there is no possibility of getting a license unless that authority permits it. Both senses are present in can.
