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argumenter / réfléchir avec des modaux

 

 

modaux > formes et valeurs > can / could + BV

 

exprimer

la capacité, le savoir-faire, la possibilité,

au présent :

 

can + BV

 

But you can make my costume

by then, right?

 

 

 

 

But you can make my costume by then, right?

 

Freshly Squeezed

by Ed Stein

Gocomics

October 30, 2011

http://www.gocomics.com/freshlysqueezed/2011/10/30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

can't be for you, dad, no one ever calls you

 

Luann

by Greg Evans

Gocomics

January 22, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't tell if you're serious or kidding

 

FoxTrot

by Bill Amend

Gocomics

January 22, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't eat with them staring at us like that!

 

Garfield

by Jim Davis

Gocomics

October 16, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dad, can I have more legos?

 

The Buckets

by Greg Cravens

Gocomics

October 09, 201

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can I have an umbrella, mom?

 

For Better or For Worse

by Lynn Johnston

Gocomics

October 16, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

can > présent > capacité, savoir-faire, potentiel

 

 

I can do it!

Je peux / sais le faire !

 

"Also, you'll find people look up to you

when you can play the guitar well.

When I was a teenager, I'd get asked to come to parties

and play my guitar all the time."

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/topics/music/guitar.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

could > valeurs > passé de can

valeur prétérit (temps du passé) :

 

Discours direct :        "I can [ présent ] do it."

 

Discours indirect :      He said he could [ ici valeur passée de can ] do it.               

                                   Il a dit qu'il pouvait [ imparfait ] le faire.

 

 

La concordance des temps (CT)

s'applique aussi bien aux verbes qu'aux modaux :

 

le verbe say étant au prétérit (said),

le modal can a ici sa forme passée (could).

 

 

 

 

 

Attention,

could peut avoir deux valeurs,

prétérit ou conditionnelle :

 

Discours direct :                  "I could [ ici valeur de conditionnel ] do it."

                                                    Je pourrais le faire (conditionnel).

 

Discours indirect :               He said he could [ ici valeur de passé ] do it.              

                                                    Il a dit qu'il pouvait le faire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

could > valeurs > valeur hypothétique > possibilité

simple hypothèse, simple supposition, théorie

 

 

If you could do anything tomorrow [ ici valeur hypothétique de could ],

what would it be [ conséquence ]?

        http://www.ifyoucould.co.uk/

 

Si tu pouvais faire tout ce que tu voulais demain, que ferais-tu ?

Si tu avais la possibilité de faire...

Supposons que tu puisses faire [ présent (temps) du subjonctif (mode) ] ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

could > valeurs

valeur hypothétique > (forte) probabilité

hypothèse raisonnée, fondée scientifiquement, démontrée

 

 

It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide.

And it could hit Earth in 31 years time

 

Et elle pourrait (bien) percuter...
 

 


Scientists call for plans to change asteroid's path

Developing technology could take decades

 

Wednesday December 7, 2005

The Guardian

Alok Jha

 

While people worry about the risks of flying or bird flu,

an asteroid strike is far more likely.

 

In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction,

a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.

A fitting name, astronomers reasoned,

for a menace now hurtling towards Earth from outerspace.

Scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390-metre wide asteroid

discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet,

and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.

    It's called Apophis. It's 390m wide. And it could hit Earth in 31 years time,
    G, 7.12.2005,
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1660485,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

The hands-on revolution


The mouse and keyboard are getting old -

but new touch-sensitive screens could give

[ hypothèse fondée, démontrée > pourrait bien ]

us a whole new way to work with computers.

Charles Arthur reports



Thursday January 18, 2007

The Guardian

 

It's more than two decades

since the last computer interface revolution - the mouse -

and now the next one is just around the corner.

Slightly less than a year ago, Jeff Han,

a researcher at the computer science department at New York University,

stood up in Monterey at the annual TED (Technology, Engineering, Design)

conference, a showcase for interesting new products and ideas,

and began demonstrating his new big idea.

Standing in front of a 36" by 27" screen tilted towards him,

he began demonstrating how he could operate [ capacité > pouvait ]

a computer using just his hands.

The crowd whooped. "I think this is going to change

the way we interact with computers," Han said.

    The hands-on revolution, G, 18.1.2007,
    http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1992309,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

could > valeurs > conditionnel

 capacité soumise à condition :

 

'If students were [ prétérit modal de be ] armed

[ condition ]

they could fight back'

[ conséquence, résultat prévisible, cause ]

 

"Si les étudiants étaient armés,

ils pourraient se défendre"

[ capacité soumise à condition > proposition conditionnelle en "si" ]

 

Traduction explicative :

la condition pour que les étudiants puissent riposter,

c'est qu'ils soient armés.

 

 

Last Updated:

2:23am BST

19/04/2007

The Daily Telegraph

By Tom Leonard in Roanoke

 

What vexes John Markell most about the Virginia Tech massacre

is not that he sold the killer one of his guns

but that none of the victims was able to shoot back.

"I shoot with those people at the university - the professors, the deans,

the grad students - and they shoot good,"

he said, fiddling with the same model handgun as that used in the killings.

The owner of Roanoke Firearms, a packed armoury of shotguns, assault rifles

and handguns a half-hour drive from the university,

said that his daughter graduated from Virginia Tech 10 years ago.

'If students were armed they could fight back',
DTel,
19.4.2007,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/18/wcampus1718.xml

 

 

 

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