There is a misconception that all verbs in a paragraph should be in the same tense. The choice of the appropriate verb tense depends on context and meaning.

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Here the distinction of can for present scenarios and could for past situations is preserved: He could read by the time he was four years old and now he can speak six languages fluently. I couldn’t ...