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See the link to conditional statements. "Could have done" is the positive form of a past conditional.
It is unfortunate that John was not given the assignment; he could have done it extremely well.
The positive aspect of the verb is that John is capableof doing it. The negative form would be ...he couldn't have done it. The situation described happened in the past and is not in the present or future. The conditional aspect is reflected in the fact that he was either given the assignment, or he was not. In this case he was not. Even though we know now that John was not given the assignment, we express events conditionally to reflect the possibility as it existed in the past.
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