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grammar – Could you imagine or Can you imagine? – English Language …
1 Answer Sorted by: 2 The verbal modalities ‘could’ and ‘can’ are structures which can signify variable degrees of conditionality. ‘Could’, if being employed in a conditional clause such as ‘If I could purchase a centrifuge, then I would study more botany’, suggests improbability or impossibility.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/can-vs-could

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Can vs. Could: How to Use Them Correctly | Grammarly
23 mars 2023Could is the past tense modal verb used to express someone’s ability. Harpreet could have pitched a perfect game if his manager had kept him in. Both verbs can also be used to express the likelihood of something happening in the future tense, which is when most people often confuse the two.

https://forum.wordreference.com / threads / can-imagine-vs-could-imagine.3539754

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can imagine vs. could imagine | WordReference Forums
Jan 20, 2019 #1 Hello, I found either can imagine or could imagine can appear in the same sentence as below: 1. I love you more than you can imagine. 2. I love you more than you could imagine. So I wonder what the difference between them. For No.1, I think it just means ability.

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference/can-could

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference/can-could
‘can’ and ‘could’ | LearnEnglish – LearnEnglish – British Council
You can imagine an implied if-clause: if you wanted to use a different word. … So we can rephrase ‘You could use a present simple form instead’ as ‘It would also be correct to use a present simple form instead’. There are many other uses of ‘could’, but I hope the distinction I’m trying to explain here helps . …

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Can you imagine or Could you imagine? Thanks! : r/grammar – Reddit
It depends. Can you imagine? asks if the recipient has the ability to imagine. On the other hand, Could you imagine? is the more polite way of saying Can you imagine?, hinting a possibility of the recipient wanting to imagine. Basically, can is a matter of capability while could is a matter of choice. 2.

https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/301116/i-can-could-imagine

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I can/could imagine – English Language Learners Stack Exchange
1 Definitely not with (1), because as we walked indicates that it happened in the past. (2) talks about imagining something that may happen in the future, so you could use can. (3) is rather loosely expressed – Prof. Cox didn’t imagine something 150 years ago, he is imagining what a person at that time might have thought. – Kate Bunting

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/imagine

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/imagine
IMAGINE | English meaning – Cambridge Dictionary
B1 to think that something exists or is true, although in fact it is not real or true: be imagining things Did you hear a noise ? No, you’re imagining things/No, you must have imagined it. I’ve never heard her criticize you – I think you imagine it. used to express shock or surprise, often at someone else’s behaviour: She got married at 16!

https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/you-can-imagine-or-you-could-imagine.284048

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[Grammar] You can imagine or you could imagine – UsingEnglish.com
#1 1) The finalists will present their proposals in sketchbook form late next month and early May, with the winning team to be designated shortly thereafter. The competition is being led by Bill Lacy, executive director of the Pritzker Prize and president of Purchase College of the State University of New York.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/imagine

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/imagine
imagine verb – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes …
1 [transitive, intransitive] to form a picture in your mind of what something might be like imagine something The house was just as she had imagined it. I can’t imagine life without the kids now. imagine (that)… Close your eyes and imagine (that) you are in a forest. imagine what, how, etc… Can you what it must be like to lose your job after 20 years? doing something She …

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/imagine

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/imagine
imagine verb – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes …
[transitive, intransitive] to form a picture in your mind of what something might be like imagine something The house was just as she had imagined it. Imagine my surprise when I opened the door to find him standing there. I can’t imagine life without the children now. It’s hard to imagine a more cynical political strategy. (that)…
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