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cancapacité / compétence / couldhypothèse / présupposition  / possibilité

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Rise        p. 5        4 Fébruary 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cette publicité

comprend quatre occurrences de can :

 

 

1    Valeur de potentiel, capacité, compétence (présent) :

I can oversee.

 

 

2 - 3 - 4    Valeur hypothétique

(conditionnel en français) :

but I couldn't manage - If you think you could - Could you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Society        p. 8        10 December 2008

http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2008/12/10/pdfs/gdn_081210_so1_8_21413445.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 11        15 February 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rex Morgan

Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan

Created in 1948 by Nicholas P. Dallis        20.5.2005

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/rmorgan/about.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It might have seemed unlikely that Mr. Mohsen, the founder of a San Jose company called Aptix Corporation, would try to hire a hit man to kill a federal judge who presided over a patent-infringement case. But, as a result of that civil case, Mr. Mohsen was in jail facing multiple charges of conspiracy to commit perjury and obstruct justice. And, according to the government, he did indeed solicit a fellow inmate to kill the judge - although he quibbled at the asking price of $25,000, saying he considered $10,000 more reasonable.

The inmate, an informant, caught the conversation on tape.

"So, now, what would you want?" the informant asked Mr. Mohsen, according to a tape transcript Mr. Mohsen's lawyer provided. "
He could be shot. He could be knifed. He could be blown up or it could look like, maybe a gas leak in his house or what?"

Mr. Mohsen asked the man which approach would be "the least traceable," and though he expressed some discomfort with the idea of killing a judge, he ordered the informant to track the judge's movements.

"I wouldn't want to do it at the courthouse," he said. "Get him when he's driving around. I'm sure he goes to a golf course or something."

When Mr. Mohsen pleaded not guilty last summer to 23 criminal counts including solicitation to murder a federal judge, the case had to be assigned to a judge in Sacramento because the entire San Francisco bench recused itself from the case.

In Courts, Threats Become Alarming Fact of Life, NYT, 20.3.2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/national/20judges.html

 

 

 

 

 

Scouring the internet may not sound

[ première étape discursive ]

as romantic as wooing your future partner with candleligh

and champagne but it could be

[ reprise de may en could > hypothèse présupposante ]

much more effective, research suggests.

As a result,

many couples sitting down tonight to enjoy Valentine's night

might well have met

[ renforcement de la présupposition, par might et well ]

in cyberspace.

Forget champagne, online chat is the way to woo, G, first §§, 14.2.2005,
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/14/
shopping.technology

 

 

 

 

 

Dear X,

Sorry about that - here are the options,

think I'va attatched (sic) them properly this time.

If not, it is 4.00 for airmail, or 15.00 for a courier services

(that is insured).

You can email me back [ can : présupposition ],

and I can place the order

- or alternatively you may place it over the Foyles website

[ may : choix ouvert, latitude laissée au co-énonciateur ].

Unfortunately I can't find a Penguin edition,

but there is this one, that I think is most similar :

Series: Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 1
The Elephant Man : 400 Headwords
by Tim Vicary
£3.20

Therefore the total would be 3.20,

plus the postal rate you wish to choose.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Yours sincerely

Y

Customer services

Email, 16.2.2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cleaning in this hospital isn't all it might be

 

Private Eye        added  25.7.2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voir aussi > Anglonautes > Grammaire anglaise > Niveau avancé

 

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