query: Why is it "could" and not "can" in the famous line: "If a face could launch a thousand ships"?
positive_passages.docid: 28323
positive_passages.text: When do I use "can" or "could"?
negative_passages.docid: 131253
negative_passages.text: Why doesn't the auxiliary will qualify as future tense?
negative_passages.docid: 81598
negative_passages.text: Why do we have to use 'to' instead of 'will'?
negative_passages.docid: 78520
negative_passages.text: When can we use 'much' in affirmative clauses?
negative_passages.docid: 7975
negative_passages.text: "You just can't" vs. "you can't just "
negative_passages.docid: 65084
negative_passages.text: won't instead of using' wouldn't' is possible?
negative_passages.docid: 59596
negative_passages.text: What does "can be said to do / to be" something mean?
negative_passages.docid: 105201
negative_passages.text: " could " vs. " could have "
negative_passages.docid: 142105
negative_passages.text: Difference between Can/Could: "Can (could) you sell your old computer to me?"
negative_passages.docid: 98820
negative_passages.text: I have "a doubt" about whether this phrase is acceptable English
negative_passages.docid: 25721
negative_passages.text: “Can” vs “Able to”: People/Animals vs. Inanimate Objects
negative_passages.docid: 15180
negative_passages.text: Use of "would be" vs. "is"
negative_passages.docid: 143963
negative_passages.text: Question about "surely" and "certainly"
negative_passages.docid: 84087
negative_passages.text: Difference between wouldn't and didn't
negative_passages.docid: 10761
negative_passages.text: What does "Can it!" mean, as used by Alex Chadwick?
negative_passages.docid: 9993
negative_passages.text: What does “would not have been possible had I remained” mean?
negative_passages.docid: 55942
negative_passages.text: Why is there no plural 's' after "hundred" or "thousand" in cardinal numbers?