VGE2 E11 – Grammaire anglaise

TD d’exercices grammaticaux Week 1

(Ce TD vise à vous faire réviser ce qui a été vu au premier semestre et pourra être utile pour réussir vos
examens ce semestre.)

Ex.1 - Underline the conjugated verb phrases in this extract from the screenplay of the
series Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (2016). Then identify the corresponding
subject/predicate relations.
Fleabag and Priest stand with whiskey glasses, outside of a confessional. Priest points to the confessional.

PRIEST : You go in there. I go in there.

FLEABAG : And you make me tell you all my secrets so you can ultimately trap and control me.

PRIEST : No. You tell me what’s weighing on your heart and I listen without judgment, and in complete
confidence.

FLEABAG : Sounds dodgy.

PRIEST : I just...listen! At the very least, it’ll shut me up for a minute.

FLEABAG : I’m not Catholic.

PRIEST : Tonight, that doesn’t matter.

FLEABAG : Won’t I catch fire or something?

PRIEST : If you did, it would confirm my faith, so let’s try it. Go on.

Ex. 2 – Pay attention to the tenses and/or time markers used in each sentence and answer
the questions:
a) My boyfriend has made / made many cookies today.
=> These both refer to today. Which can be used during the day and which at the end of the
day? …………………………………………………………………………………………
b) She ran a bath… / She’s run a bath…
=> After which of these two options can you add ‘and then she lowered herself into the
water’ ? …………………………………………………………………………………….
c) Rose has got / got many roles during her lifetime.
=> Is Rose alive or dead? ……………………………………………………………………..
d) Have you ever tried making an American cheesecake? / Did you ever try to make an
American cheesecake?
=> Which can start a conversation? …………………………………………………………

Ex. 3 – Which of the suggested time markers can be used with each sentence? Circle the
correct ones.
a) I ate only gluten-free food. => already? many years ago? yesterday?
b) It was so cold. => since Friday? lately? up to now?
c) They’ve broken up. => that month? the other day? just?
d) We haven’t run out of Christmas chocolate. => yet? so far? last December?
e) He lost his ID. => ever since? after he took a cab? until now?
f) Things have been crazy. => lately? until last week? since New Year’s Eve?

Ex. 4 – Conjugate the verbs in parentheses with the most appropriate tense form.
It all ………………………. (happen) a long time ago. So much ……………………….
(happen) since then. 1995 it was. Late October. I ………………………. (remember) it
………………………. (be) then because the leaves ………………………. (just begin) to fall
outside our bedroom window. In fact, it ………………………. (be) Saturday 7 th. We
………………………. (be) at a party the night before, and I ………………………. (feel) a
little under the weather. Suddenly, my girlfriend ………………………. (turn) to me and
………………………. (say) – totally out of the blue – “you ………………………. (not love)
me... in fact, I ………………………. (not believe) you ………………………. (even ever
like) me.” I ………………………. (not know) what to say. It was as if someone
………………………. (just kick) me in the stomach. I ………………………. (realise) then
what I ………………………. (ignore) for a long time: we ………………………. (not
understand) each other and in fact we never ………………………. . When you
………………………. (live) with someone for a long time, the little unimportant things often
………………………. (blind) you. They ………………………. (keep) your attention away
from the things that really ………………………. (matter). Up until that morning in October,
there ………………………. (be) a truce between us, some sort of tacit compromise to keep
living together. Neither of us ………………………. (really try) to do anything about it. At
some point in our relationship we ………………………. (decide) not to have a family. A
month later, she ………………………. (leave), and we ………………………. (not meet)
again until yesterday. I ………………………. (run into) her at Boots. She
………………………. (look) happier. While we ………………………. (talk), I
………………………. (keep) thinking that perhaps if we ………………………. (be) a bit
older at the time, we ………………………. (try) a bit harder not to spoil what we had.