Question linguistique, au bac L, en anglais
Identifier la forme verbale (un auxiliaire de modalité...), expliquer la valeur, reformuler la phrase avec une forme synonyme ou la comparer avec une autre forme différente. ex : would (we'd dive) : auxiliaire de modalité, habitude dans le passé, ont peut reformuler avec use to.
Voc : a modal auxilary, to express (he expresses), to convey a value (of future), a meaning, to reformulate, in another way / in other words, in other rand...
Will
Future
Look at your brother : he will sit there for hours, doing nothing = a habit in the present = he always sit
vérité générale "boys will be boys"
I'm sure she will come if you invite her. Help me, will you? la volonté = the will, acceptance = will accept/agree to come, to tone down (atténuer), straight forward
What a pily! my father won't let me drive his Gran Torino. = refusal = doesn't want to, refuse to
(The doorbell rigns) "ah, that will be our guests !" = high probability (quasi-certitude), that must is = i'm (quite) sure this is ... = the will have arrived by now.
Would
conditional (present or past), hypothesis ("if")
So years ago, the streek would be empty on Sunday = a habit in the past = used to be, were always, whenever
acceptance, refusal in the past = I asked her to come over but she wouldn't move = she refused to move.
high probability in the past = I hesitated to give him a phone call, he would be sleeping at that time.
I promised I would help you = future in the past, reported speech
May
you may smock if you wish = permission, to grant permission (aacorder une permission), to refuse, interdiction, to be allowed to
they may come tonight, but I doubt it = probability = they're likely to come
may you succeed ! may the best man win = a wish (the modal and the subject are inverted) = I wish you succeeded.
Might (quand même)
the past form of may, preterite, (reported speech) = he said he maight come the next day = I may come tomorrow
a probability which is even less important than with may
we might go to the restaurant tonight = a proposual, a suggestion = shall we go..?, why don't we go ...? why not go ...? what/ how about going...?
you might have been more tactful ! = a reproach = you should have been
Must/ have to
I must go = the speaker imposes himself this obligation
I have to go = the speaker is competted to go by somebody else or by external factors (cicunstances)
Do
he told me he would stop and he did = reprise par auxiliaire ce qui évite les répétitions, to remplace, to avoid the repetition of verb stop
he told me he would stop and he did stop = empathie do, empathis, to insist, to confirm = really or actually, indeed = he stop actually, he really stopped
I did try, but I failed ! to contradic, to tress, a disagrement = you're wrong! I tried
Should ther be any difficulty, just let me know = hypothesis = if even there were any difficulty, in case of any difficulty.
Had you been there you would have been surprised = formal English
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