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learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé
groupe verbal > expressions du futur
futur imminent / effet d'annonce
be + about + toviseur -> Base Verbale (BV)
A man is about to jump from that burning building!
A man is about to jump from that burning building!
Popeye Hi Eisman 17 September 2004 http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/popeye/about.htm - broken link
Millions of seniors struggle to afford housing — and it's about to get a lot worse
UPDATED NOVEMBER 30, 2023 NPR
Cette structure permet de mettre en scène un événement présenté comme imminent, même si cet événement peut ne pas se produire dans l'instant (effet d'annonce -> 1).
Traductions : être sur le point de / aller bientôt, maintenant, à présent.
Ellipse possible de be + about (1).
1 - Biologists to explore 'lost world' of the Arctic ocean
Biologists are about to enter a lost world deep in the greatest tract of unexplored territory on the planet. They plan to probe under the Arctic ice into the Canada basin, a steep-sided submarine hole the size of Alaska thought to have been isolated from the surrounding ocean for millions of years. The study, announced last night, is part of one of biology's great adventures: a $1bn (£548m), 10-year census of marine life supported by 300 researchers from 53 countries. Headline and sub, G, 25.6.2004, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/25/ science.research
The Syria Babble We Don’t Need
September 7, 2013 The New York Times By FRANK BRUNI
OUR country is about to make the most excruciating kind of decision, the most dire: whether to commence a military campaign whose real costs and ultimate consequences are unknowable.
The Syria Babble We Don’t Need,
A £2bn, seven-year mission is about to come to a climax as a spacecraft the size of a small bus sails through the rings of Saturn to begin a four-year study of one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.
Probe takes the Saturn
ring road, §1,
US troops were about to throw a hand grenade down the hole
'I am Saddam Hussein the president of Iraq
It's rare to get slapped in the cinema. But more than 15 years ago, it happened to me. Or at least to my friend sitting in the next seat. Aware that the movie we were about to see was a long one, he had stocked up on a mega-bag of popcorn. Ten minutes into the film, he was munching away, when a woman from the row behind reached down and gave his leg a firm smack. "Have you no respect?"
Visions of hell,
Do you mind? We're about to have a funeral.
Jeff Koterba Comment cartoon Cagle 13 October 2004 http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/koterba.asp
be + about + ready + toviseur -> base verbale
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