- Imparfait d'habitude/regular/imparfait ...(pour des actions qui se répètent) > .../would ou imparfait ... - one single action
- Un jour, il se mit.... passé simple, ...>began to speak to me
- His throat was too full of dust to let him return their greetings. Traduis avec une modulation et un chassé-croisé
- Se sont aimés - An ... - fallen in love; whereaslove - stative
- ... for the arrival of the oxen as they turn from the road, listen for the creak of the cart > qui quittent la route en tournant vers la maison. Quel est le procédé?
- He's concentrating on the cooler, tugging the lever for the water, - l'action est simultanée >
- When we use 'be going to' , we refer to a ... action
- Translation of ‘on lisait’ : In French we have an ... ‘on’ which poses a problem of translation because it can correspond to many different ..., and has no direct correspondence to a structure in English. We should analyse the ... of ‘on’. Here it has a generic value, that’s why it can be translated by a ... form.
- Julien was always wearing ; -ing adds a ...
- Structure: 1) Description of the French text 2)..., difference between the two languages 3) solution
- Elle y songeait souvent, se demandant d’où venait qu’après
- The watching girls- present participle 'watching' > transposition vers un nom
- Example of a justification: Traverser maladroitement le trottoir - traverser est un verbe de ... : French verbs represent path/trajectory, whereas in English to represent the trajectory of movement... should be used. Solution: use a ... which would result in a more idiomatic translation: lurched across the sidewalk.
- When justifying the choice of -ing , state whether the verb is ...
- "Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want."
- "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'."
- "Well--hell! I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him."
- "Ain't many guys travel around together," he mused. "I don't know why. Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other"
- "Sure he's jes' like a kid. There ain't no more harmin him than a kid neither, execpt he's so strong. I bet he won't come in here to sleep tonight. He'd sleep right alongside that box in the barn."
- "No I couldn't do that. I had 'im to long"