1. Cette actrice est célèbre depuis longtemps.
2. Elle a commencé sa carrière dans les années 90.
3. Ce petit garçon chante ses chansons préférées depuis deux heures.
4. J’ai rencontré cet artiste il y a deux ans.
5. Laura avait 6 ans quand elle a déménagé.
6. La première fois que j’ai rencontré Johnny, je travaillais l’école.
7. La dernière fois que je l’ai vue, elle était blonde.
8. Elle lisait depuis une heure lorsqu’elle décida d’aller se coucher.
9. Vanessa et Jack sont mes amis depuis longtemps.
10. She is the best actress I have ever met!
Réponses :
1. This actress has been famous for a long time now.
2. She began her career in the 1990s.
3. This little boy has been singing his favourite songs for two hours.
4. I met this artist two years ago.
5. Laura was six when she moved out.
6. The first time I met Johnny, I was working at school.
7. Last time I saw her, she was blond.
8. She had been reading for an hour when she decided to go to bed.
9. Vanessa and Jack have been my friends for a long time.
10. C’est la meilleure actrice que j’aie jamais rencontrée !
– La phrase affirmative
| I’d been reading |
| You’d been reading |
| He / She / It’d been reading |
| We’d been reading |
| You’d been reading |
| They’d been reading |
– La phrase négative
| I hadn’t been reading |
| You hadn’t been reading |
| He / She / It hadn’t been reading |
| We hadn’t been reading |
| You hadn’t been reading |
| They hadn’t been reading |
– La phrase interrogative
| Had I been reading? |
| Had you been reading? |
| Had he / she / it been reading? |
| Had we been reading? |
| Had you been reading? |
| Had they been reading? |
Sujet + have conjugué au passé + been + verbe en –ing + (complément)
Exemple 1 : « I had been working for them for 5 years when he was hired. » (Je travaillais pour eux depuis 5 ans lorsqu’il a été embauché.)
Exemple 2 : « They were exhausted because they had been walking all day. » (Ils étaient épuisés car ils avaient marché toute la journée.)
Exemple 1 : « He had been waiting for years. » (Il attendait depuis des années.)
Exemple 2 : « When I saw him, I noticed that he had been sleeping a lot. » (Lorsque je le vis, je remarquai qu’il avait beaucoup dormi.)