I'm allowed to stay up as late as I like.
Was Tina allowed to leave work early?
You won't be allowed to take photos.
Be allowed to means that the permission does not depend on the speaker or the
person spoken to. Compare these two sentences.
May we leave early, please? (= Will you allow it?)
Are we allowed to leave early? (= Is it allowed?/What is the rule?)
c We use be allowed to (not can or may) in the perfect and the infinitive.
Newspapers have not been allowed to report what is going on.
I didn't expect to be allowed to look round the factory.
d In the past, we make a difference between general permission and permission
which resulted in an action. For general permission we use could or was/were
allowed to.
Years ago visitors to Stonehenge could go/were allowed to go right up to the
stones.
For an action that someone did with permission, we use was/were allowed to.
The five students were allowed to go right up to the stones.
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