Which sentence contains the form error in the present-ability modal contrast?
The whole survey team can operate the underwater drone after one day of training.
Jules is able to translate the inscription without consulting the catalogue.
Our guide can recognise each bird by its alarm call in dense woodland.
The archivist cans restore ink that has faded on nineteenth-century maps.✓Correct answer
Explanation
The archive sentence is malformed because can never takes a third-person singular ending. The longer alternatives show valid present skills or correctly use be able to where another grammatical form is needed.