Stop saying: “I can to help you tomorrow.”

Say instead: “I can help you tomorrow.” · A2 · Verb Forms

✗ Wrong

I can to help you tomorrow.

✓ Correct

I can help you tomorrow.

Why?

After can, could, will, and must, use the base verb with no to. Say I can help, she must go, we will see. The to appears only after verbs like want, need, and plan.

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The three correct examples below, in a real voice.

✗ She can to speak Spanish well.

✓ She can speak Spanish well.

✗ You must to finish this today.

✓ You must finish this today.

✗ We will to visit New York soon.

✓ We will visit New York soon.

Can swallows the to — the verb follows bare.

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