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A student wrote: "Oil companies could of captured and sold the leaked methane." ...

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A student wrote: "Oil companies could of captured and sold the leaked methane." What is the grammatical error?

The sentence should use the passive: "could of been captured."

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"Could" should be replaced with "would" to match the conditional structure.

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"Could of" is incorrect; the correct form is "could have" + past participle.

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"Captured" should be in the base form: "could of capture."

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