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Rattachez chaque exemple de cette feuille
aux explications de la deuxième partie.
1- ' I wish it would stop
raining.' =/= 'Tom said he would
lend Ann some money' =/= "Whenever he was angry, he would just walk out of the
room' =/= 'What would you do if you
won a million pounds?'
2- ' What shall we do this
evening? We could go to the cinema.'
3- 'Don't come at 8. I'll be watching the match' is a ...............
4- 'He has lost his key' is a ...............
5- 'He may be in his office' =/= ' I may
go to Italy for my holidays' =/= 'You may
smoke if you like'
6- 'I must write to Ann. I haven't written to her for ages' =/= 'Ann's
eyes are not very good. She has to
wear glasses for reading)
7- 'I used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day'
=/= The English are not used to
driving on the right.
8- 'I'll repair it tomorrow' =/= I'm
going to repair it tomorrow.
9- 'I'm playing tennis tomorrow' is a ...............
10-'It rained all day yesterday' is a ...............
11- 'Jack was an excellent
tennis player: he could beat
anybody. But one day, Alf was able
to beat him.'
12- 'She's driving to work' is a ...............
13- 'The earth goes round the sun' is a
...............
14- 'The ground is wet: it's been raining' is a ...............
15- 'The ground was very wet.
It had been raining." is a
...............
16- 'They were playing tennis then' is a ...............
17- 'This house was built in 1895'
18- 'When I arrived, he wasn't
there. He had gone home' is a
...............
19- You must go =/= You mustn't
shout =/= You needn't hurry
20- A preterite is a
.................... whereas a past is ....................
A- ............... is sometimes the past of will. / This ............... is an example of a conditional./ We
use ............... when we want something to happen or somebody to do
something. / You can use ................. when you look back on the past and
remember things that often happened.
B- ............... means that it is not necessary to do something
whereas ............... means that it is necessary that you do something;
............... means that it is necessary that you do not do something.
C- future continuous (to say that we will be in the middle of doing
something at a certain time in the future)
D- Here ............... has a future meaning, (when we talking
about possible future actions,
especially when we make suggestions)
E- past continuous (to say that someone was in the middle of doing
something at a certain time)
F- past perfect (to say that something had already happened before a
given time)
G- past perfect continuous (it is the past of the present perfect
continuous)
H- past simple (to talk about actions or situations in the past)
I- present continuous (to talk about something which is happening at the
time of speaking)
J- present continuous with a future meaning when you're talking about
what you have already arranged to do)
K- present perfect ( auxiliary + past participle: to indicate a
connection with the present ; to talk about a period of time that continues up
to the present; we're interested in the result of the action, not the action
itself)
L- present perfect continuous (to talk about an action which began in
the past and has recently stopped or to say how long something has been
happening -still happening or just stopped)
M- We can use ............... to
give permission =/= to talk about
possible actions in the future =/to say that something is possible
N- We use ............... or ............... to say that it is necessary
to do something ( with ............... the speaker is giving his own feelings,
saying what he thinks is necessary
while with ............... he is just giving facts)
O- present simple (to talk about things in general or things which
happen repeatedly)
P- We use ............... to say that someone had the general ability to
do something while we use ............... to mean that someone managed to do
something in one particular occasion.
Q- We use ............... with the infinitive to say that something
regularly happened in the past but no longer happens; for past situations which
no longer exist. We use ................... with a noun or ING to indicate that
thing is not strange for us.
R- We use a passive sentence when it is not important who or what did
the action. (active vs. passive)
S- a tense , a time
T- we use ............... when we decide to do something at the time of
speaking whereas we use ............... when we have already decided to do
something.