Grammar quiz : ECS 1 LV1 1) Les scientifiques ne cessent de

Grammar quiz : ECS 1 LV1
1) Les scientifiques ne cessent de faire des progrès en génétique.
a. Catégorie / gallicisme : ‘scientific’ is an adjective
b. Structure / wrong word : keep (on) making
c. Non-count, invariable singular nouns : progress, genetics (mathematics,
politics, ethics)
Ø Scientists keep (on) making / never stop making progress in genetics.
2) Le chef ferait mieux de leur faire faire des heures supplémentaires.
a. Structure : had better + Base Verbale;
b. Structure + sens to have SB + base verbale = ask, request sb to do sth (to make
sb do sth = coerce, force sb to do sth, a meaning that was not likely here)
The boss / the CEO should have them // had better have them do overtime.
3) Si j’étais toi, je n’aurais jamais accepté de la revoir.
a. Concordance des temps, prétérite modal
If I were you, I would never have agreed to see her again
4) Depuis plus de vingt ans, la politique d’immigration de la Grande Bretagne provoque
des tensions politiques.
a. Aspect bilan après une durée (FOR)…have –EN
b. Faux sens : policy and not politics; adjective : political
c. No double determination is possible : the UK’s immigration policy (because
THE United Kindom) but Ø Britain’s immigration policy (because Ø Britain)
For more than two decades, Ø Britain’s immigration policy has triggered / has been causing
political tension / conflict / strife (NON COUNT)
5) Malgré tout ce qu’il a enduré, il l’aime toujours.
a. aspect have + en, bilan après un parcours = deux repères : 1 passé, 1 présent, le
moment d’énonciation)
b. faux sens (toujours) : always (forever) se projette dans le futur : he will always
love her; STILL is backward-looking, in the sense ‘continues to’
No matter what he has gone through / has borne / has had to put up with / has endured, he
still loves her