learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé

temps, formes verbales

groupe verbal > passé temporel

narration

concordance

des verbes et des modaux

(appelée aussi

concordance des temps)

série

de verbes au passé temporel

et / ou

de modaux à valeur de passé

ou

série de modaux à valeur de futur

dans un contexte passé

I believed

that I would see her again.

[ verbe régulier believe

au passé temporel ]

[ modal would >

valeur dans cet énoncé > futur dans un contexte passé ]

May 20, 2020    5:00 a.m. ET    NYT

série de verbes au passé temporel

The Guardian        p. 38        15 February 2007

concordance des verbes et des modaux

autres énoncés

The Phantom

Paul Ryan (daily art),

Graham Nolan (sunday art)

& Tony DePaul (scripts)

3 April 2005

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

Supreme Court Will Take Up

 [ modal > ici valeur futur de will ]

Two Cases on Gay Marriage

December 7, 2012
The New York Times
By ADAM LIPTAK

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced

[ verbe régulier au prétérit ] on Friday

that it would enter

[ modal > ici valeur de futur dans un contexte passé ]

the national debate over same-sex marriage,

agreeing to hear a pair of cases challenging state

and federal laws that define marriage to include

only unions of a man and a woman.

Supreme Court Will Take Up Two Cases on Gay Marriage,
NYT,
7.12.2012,
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/
us/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-two-cases-on-gay-marriage.html

Raped policeman:

'I never thought

[ verbe think au passé temporel ]

I would be a victim

[ modal > ici valeur de futur

dans un contexte passé ] '

A detective investigating sexual assaults

was devastated when he himself was raped.

But he grew even more angry

when police colleagues insisted

on investigating the crime.

Here he tells his tale anonymously

Amelia Hill
Guardian.co.uk
Monday 4 April 2011 20.30 BST
This article was published
on guardian.co.uk at 20.30 BST
on Monday 4 April 2011.
A version appeared on p12
of the G2 section of the Guardian
on Tuesday 5 April 2011.
It was last modified at 00.05 BST
on Tuesday 5 April 2011.

I've been a police officer for two decades and a detective, specialising in serious crime and sexual offences, for 15 years. Never once in all the time I've investigated these horrific crimes has it occurred to me that one day I would be a victim; that I would be raped – and that I would refuse to help the police investigate.

But a couple of weeks ago, I made a series of choices that led to me, a heterosexual man, waking up in a man's bed, trapped underneath him. Being raped. I'm still struggling to come to terms with how, despite my decades of professional experience, I made the choices that led to me being raped. At no point the evening before had I felt at risk. At no point did I think I was making a bad decision.

I also never anticipated using the service the police provide to rape victims. I've always been the one asking the questions. To be on the other side of the table has been a shock – if I investigated a sexual crime now, there are things I would do differently.

It's hard to accept that a couple of weeks ago everything was normal. Now everything's wrong. I had gone out with friends for a Saturday brunch. We were a small group of settled, sorted, middle-aged men, some single, some in relationships, but none of us looking to do anything other than spend some quiet leisure time together. We had a couple of beers, shared a bottle of wine over the meal, then sat around in the pub chatting and reading the papers.

Raped policeman:
'I never thought I would be a victim',
G, 4.4.2011,
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2011/apr/04/
raped-policeman-colleagues-investigation

Police unable to stop paedophile living

near his schoolgirl victim

The family of a schoolgirl claim

that they have been forced out of their home

after a paedophile who was jailed for sexually

assaulting the child moved back into their street

after being released.

Relatives of the 10-year-old girl yesterday

said they had to move

because she was terrified

that she might be attacked again.

Abuser 'forced family to flee home',
 first §§, G, 10.6.2005,
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/jun/10/
childrensservices.childprotection 

NEW YORK (Reuters) -

Procter & Gamble Co. on Friday said

it would buy Gillette Co.

[ modal > ici valeur de futur dans un contexte passé ]

in a deal worth about $55.8 billion, uniting two

of the world's largest makers of household goods

ranging from Pampers diapers to Duracell batteries.

P&G to Buy Gillette for $55.8 Billion, R, Fri Jan 28, 2005 07:41 PM ET,
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=
 J5CDRDEOAMPZKCRBAEZSFEY?type=businessNews&storyID=7472288

Ce texte comprend 2 concordances de temps (CT),

l'une au présent,

l'autre au passé :

Saddam Hussein, Taha Yassin Ramadan and Tariq

Aziz are lounging on the balcony of one of Saddam's

palaces when a flock of geese flies over.

"Ramadan, shoot the geese," Saddam says.

The vice president lifts his AK-47

and empties a clip into the sky,

but doesn't hit a single goose.

"You try, Tariq," Saddam says.

The deputy prime minister fires and misses as well.

"Damn, I have to do everything around here,"

Saddam says.

He fires five rounds in the air.

None of the birds fall.

There's an awkward silence.

Then Tariq Aziz points at the receding flock

and says,

"My God, would you look at that!

Dead birds flying!"

Telling a joke like that could get you maimed,

tortured and even killed in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

The most common penalty was tongue amputation.

Iraquis know the story of Lt. Gen. Omar al-Hazzaa,

one of Saddam's top officers.

During a backgammon game with friends in 1984,

the subject of Saddam's mother came up.

Al-Hazzaa joked, "Who is she, anyway?"

Saddam and his four brothers all had different

mothers.

Everyone laughed,

but one of them informed on him.

According to accounts from family survivors

who later fled Iraq,

first al-Hazzaa's tongue was cut out,

then his sons had their tongues cut out

while their wives were forced to watch.

Then his male family members were killed

in front of him,

and his wife and daughters turned out of their home.

Finally he was executed.

Iraq: Killer Jokes, pp.4-5, N, 19.5.2003.

The Guardian        p. 5        17 January 2005

Rex Morgan

Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan

Created in 1948 by Nicholas P. Dallis

28 October 2004

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

From The Times Archives

On This Day - May 2, 1956

The Times joined the general acclaim

as huge throngs assembled

for the opening of the Great Exhibition in London

THE struggles of great nations in battle, the levies of whole races, never called forth such an array as thronged the streets of London on the 1st of May.

If a man ventured into the Strand or Holborn at 8 o’clock, with the intent to see the show, he felt half inclined to turn back with the idea that it would be useless to go where “all the world” would be before him.

Down the cross streets — from Lincoln’s-inn-fields, Camden-town, Kensington, Bayswater, Kennington, Islington, the City, Southwark, from the most remote suburb, by train, omnibus, cab, horse and foot, teemed the crowds. The tramp of men, with wives and daughters on their arms, resounded from the pavement as they all trudged westwards with contented and happy faces. Those honest English workmen, in their round fustian jackets and glazed caps, felt they had a right to take part in the honours of the day, and to have an honest pride in the result of their own and their brethren’s labours, and they walked contentedly and happily, amid prancing horses and gaudy liveries.

Strange-looking foreigners passed along in the stream without the note and comment in which we are to wont to indulge at any deviation in costume or appearance from the mode prescribed at the time by popular taste. There was a dearth of Turks and turbans, but the supply of beard, imperial, sallow faces, and eccentric head-gear was liberal, though not unlimited.

From The Times Archives > On This Day - May 2, 1956,
The Times,
2.5.2005.

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