Beware of auto-generated content

I spoke with a student last week about confusion which had arisen from looking up how to conjugate 'can' from a website. I think some of these websites do not distinguish between normal and modal verbs and generate the content automatically. So the future of 'can' from verbix.com is ' I will can' when in fact you would say 'I will be able to'. This worries me as people use the internet so much now for studying English that there is content out there that is plainly wrong. For English grammar, I would recommend going old school, and getting a physical copy of Essential Grammar in Use by R. Murphy.

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