Adjective complement with noun phrase

• have: They may not have family able to help them stay self-sufficient.

Modifying Another Word

• therefore: None of the prospective tenants were therefore able to assess how easy or difficult it would be to afford a housing association rent.

• now: We are now able to announce dates for trips to all the plays in this year's Theater West season.

• finally: I placed the three crystals individually and was finally able to shake them free of the forceps.

• thus: Rights holders are thus able to benefit from allowing use of their works [ 13 ] .

• maybe: Not too sure how long they maybe able to manipulate the market tho.

• not: At present we are not able to accept children under 5 years of age for reasons of insurance.

Infinitive complement

• offer: How often would you be able to offer support to a child / family?

• help: Some groups are able to help could you let me know how?

• demonstrate: Q. What behavior do you expect a 1st placement student to be able to demonstrate in relation to the CPR skill?

• get: You also won't be able to get pregnant.

• do: The more people sign up, the more we'll be able to do to push the campaign forward.

• see: You will not be able to see some of the stage.

Modifies a noun

• student: The more able students can use the available contact time to look at the subject material in greater depth.

• reader: The pilot focused on training for key staff from all schools on literacy skills across the curriculum and support for less able readers.

• soldier: Karl was a popular and very able soldier whom I had recently promoted.

• pen: A more able pen then mine deals with these early days and it only remains to fill in one or two items.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: A short while after I went into hospital, the sessions folded, because no-one felt able to drive them along.

• seem: Staff are friendly and even when it's busy we seem able to get a comfy seat.

• become: What do they want to learn, to become able to do?