curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-use-modal-verbs/67d7f51725e7dd7cf52b0487.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
What I BLANK BLANK out is how they got past our firewall.
can't
This is a negative modal verb, meaning not able to or not possible to.
figure
This verb can be used when talking about solving a problem.
The contraction can't is short for cannot, which means not able to do something.
Can't (cannot) + base verb is used when something is impossible or difficult to understand. For example:
I can't believe this happened! - It is hard for you to believe.
She can't access the system. - She is not able to.
Jake is confused about how the attackers bypassed the firewall, meaning he cannot figure it out.
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