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grammaire anglaise > formes interrogatives / questions directes > présupposé

 

so + Nsujet + V + proposition + ?

 

So you think you're fit?

 

 

 

 

surely + this + be + adj + ?

 

'Surely this is a bit poofy?'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so + Nsujet + V + proposition + ?

 

Cette structure permet notamment de mettre en doute

ce que pense le co-énonciateur

(voir aussi Questions tags).

 

Le texte ci-dessous comprend trois questions sur le même thème.

 

Les deux premières présupposent que le co-énonciateur / lecteur

n'est pas en aussi bonne forme qu'il le croie.

 

Traduction explicative du premier énoncé :

Alors, comme ça on pense qu'on est en forme, hein ?

Vous pensiez que vous étiez en forme ?

 

 

So you think you're fit?

 

You may watch what you eat

and go to the gym when you can,

but what kind of shape are you actually in?

Joanna Moorhead puts five readers to the test

How fit do you think you are?

According to Dr David Stensel

of the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences

at Loughborough University,

it's difficult to know exactly.

Regular exercise - though highly recommended -

is only part of the picture.

"Genetics plays a big part in fitness too.

It's certainly the case that two people of the same age

can do the same amount of exercise,

but one can be fitter than the other," he says.

Headline, sub and §1, G, 20.1.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/jan/20/
healthandwellbeing.health2 

 

 

 

 

 

So you think disaster will never strike?

 

A third of us have no life cover.

Yet if we die, our families could lose their homes

and be wrecked financially.

Melanie Bien reports

 

Accidents will happen and illness can strike,

but many of us seem to assume that our charmed lives will last for ever.

According to research from the Alliance & Leicester bank,

almost a third of Britons haven't got life assurance.

Headline, sub and §1, IoS, 3.10.2004,
http://money.independent.co.uk/personal_finance/insurance/story.jsp?story=568286

 

 

 

 

 

'Surely this is a bit poofy?'

 

What's the appeal of all-male Shakespeare?

Mark Ravenhill finds out

Headline and sub, G, 24.1.2005,
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/jan/24/theatre 

 

 

 

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