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استعمال Possibility Expresses Probability Talk Past Police Realized

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Possibility 3
Back "Couldn't" expresses the same probability as "can't".
It is usually used to talk about the past:

The police realized he couldn't be Canadian. (=It was very unlikely that he was Canadian).

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