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learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé
groupe verbal
it is / it has been X years / days + since + proposition au passé
la séquence en since marque le début de la période de référence du bilan
It is almost two years since the Guantanamo prison camp opened. [ Traductions explicatives :
Cela fait presque 2 ans que le camp-prison a ouvert à Guantanamo / Guantanamo est ouvert depuis presque 2 ans ]
Its purpose is to hold people seized in the 'war on terror' and defined by the Bush administration as enemy combatants - though many appear to have been bystanders to the conflict. Images of Camp Delta's orange-jumpsuited, manacled detainees have provoked international outrage. But the real horror they face isn't physical hardship, it is the threat of infinite confinement, without trial or access to legal representation. James Meek has spent the past month talking to former inmates and some of those involved in operating the Pentagon's Kafkaesque justice system. He has built an unprecedented picture of life on the base, which we present in this special issue
People the law
forgot,
It has been just about two years since Michael Barrymore stood on a stage.
[ Traductions explicatives :
Cela fait 2 ans environ que Michael Barrymore n'a pas joué au théâtre / Michael Barrymore n'a pas joué au théâtre depuis 2 ans environ ]
A
glimpse of the truth,
He points out that it is only two days since McDonald's, bete noire of the anti-globalisation movement, issued a profit warning, its seventh in the past two years.
Power
to the people,
On rencontre aussI since + marqueur passé (1964) + proposition au passé :
The Higgs Boson particle was first observed when scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, spun and crashed particles together near the speed of light.
They did that by using the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider.
Since 1964, physicists theorized this particle existed, but it took nearly 50 years to find evidence.
Scientists believe the Higgs field was formed a tenth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang and without it, stars, planets and life would not have emerged.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/05/
Voir aussi > Anglonautes > Grammaire anglaise explicative - niveau avancé
Present perfect > marqueurs de temps
Present perfect > Valeurs énonciatives >
Past perfect > Valeurs énonciatives
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