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 realized |
| You’d realized |
| He / She / It’d realized |
| We’d realized |
| You’d realized |
| They’d realized |
– La phrase négative
| I hadn’t realized |
| You hadn’t realized |
| He / She / It hadn’t realized |
| We hadn’t realized |
| You hadn’t realized |
| They hadn’t realized |
– La phrase interrogative
| Had I realized? |
| Had you realized? |
| Had he / she / it realized? |
| Had we realized? |
| Had you realized? |
| Had they realized? |
Les tableaux ci-dessous prennent pour exemple le verbe lexical irrégulier « to bring » (apporter).
| BASE VERBALE | PRETERIT | PARTICIPE PASSE |
| Bring | Brought | Brought |
– La phrase affirmative
| I’d brought |
| You’d brought |
| He / She / It’d brought |
| We’d brought |
| You’d brought |
| They’d brought |
– La phrase négative
| I hadn’t brought |
| You hadn’t brought |
| He / She / It hadn’t brought |
| We hadn’t brought |
| You hadn’t brought |
| They hadn’t brought |
– La phrase interrogative
| Had I brought? |
| Had you brought? |
| Had he / she / it brought? |
| Had we brought? |
| Had you brought? |
| Had they brought? |
Sujet + have conjugué au passé + participe passé + (complément)
Exemple 1 : « I had agreed. » (J’ai accepté.)
Exemple 2 : « You had known. » (Tu savais.)
| FORME AFFIRMATIVE | FORME NEGATIVE | FORME INTERROGATIVE |
| I had / ‘d | I had not / hadn’t | Had I? |
| You had / ‘d | You had not / hadn’t | Had you? |
| He / She / It had / ‘d | He / She / It had not / hadn’t | Had he / she / it? |
| We had / ‘d | We had not / hadn’t | Had we? |
| You had / ‘d | You had not / had’nt | Had you? |
| They had / ‘d | They had not / hadn’t | Had they? |
– une action qui est antérieure à une autre action du passé.
Exemple : « She didn’t remember what had happened to her. » (Elle ne se souvenait pas de ce qu’il lui était arrivé.)
– d’exprimer des « flashbacks », des retours en arrière.
Exemple : « They realized that they had been there before. » (Ils se sont rendu compte qu’ils étaient déjà venus.)
Certaines expressions telles que « It was the first time that… » nécessitent l’emploi du past perfect simple.
Exemple : « It was the first time that I had seen him. » (C’était la première fois que je le voyais.)
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