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Grammaire anglaiseLa grammaire anglaise est l'étude de la langue anglaise. Elle est relativement simpledans le sens où certaines structures sont semblables aux autres langues européennes,cependant elle présente quelques particularités.

Ordre des mots L'anglais est une langue respectant l'ordre SVO (sujet, verbe, objet) dans la phrasedéclarative. Exemples : Tom does his homework. « Tom » (sujet) « fait » (verbe) « sesdevoirs » (objet). Mary eats a cake. « Mary mange un gâteau. » En général l'élémentprincipal se trouve au début de la phrase. Exemple : To run quickly. « Courir vite. » (phraseverbale)Il existe cependant des exceptions. Exemples : • blue house (adjectif + nom) : « maison bleue » • Fred's cat : « le chat de Fred ». L'ordre des mots change également pour une phrase interrogative. Par exemple, il y a Areyou going to the beach ? ou Do you go to the beach ? « Vas-tu à la plage ? » La voix passiveexiste en anglais : The cake is eaten by Mary. : « Le gâteau est mangé par Mary. »

Noms En anglais, les noms s'appliquent généralement aux personnes, aux lieux, aux objets ou auxidées abstraites et se traitent grammaticalement d'une façon différente des verbes. L'anglais ne différencie le masculin et le féminin que pour les personnes (pronomspersonnels : he et she) ; tous les autres noms sont neutres (pron. personnel it), à de raresexceptions près, par exemple a ship (fém.) : "The Titanic was a famous ship. She hit aniceberg and sank."Les noms anglais ne sont pas marqués par le cas, cependant ils s'accordent avec le nombreet peuvent être définis ou indéfinis.Exemple : The house where I was born. La maison où je suis né. House est un nom définicar la maison réfère à une maison spécifique, celle où je suis né. The houses : les maisons(pluriel).

Pluriel des noms • La plupart des noms anglais prennent un 's' au pluriel.

Exemples : one ball (une balle), two balls (2 balles) ; one dog (un chien), two dogs (2chiens); one brother (un frère), two brothers (2 frères).

• Les noms ayant une particule séparable font également leur pluriel en -s. Le S est ajoutéau mot le plus important.Exemples : one hold-up, two hold-ups ; one hanger-on, two hangers-on ; one son-in-law,two sons-in-law

• Les noms se terminant par -y précédé d'une consonne au singulier, se terminent par iesau pluriel.Exemples : one country, two countries ; one story, two stories.

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• Les noms dont le singulier finit par -s, -ch, -sh, et -x ainsi que certains mots en -o,prennent leur pluriel en -es.Exemples : one tomato, two tomatoes; one fox, two foxes; one bus, two buses; one watch,two watches; one brush, two brushes.

• Certains mots adhèrent aux règles du Latin.Exemples: formula, formulae; appendix, appendices; compendium, compendia. Le plurieltraditionnel est souvent valide aussi: formulas, compendiums.

• Plusieurs mots dont la dernière syllabe comporte un f prennent leur pluriel en -ves.Exemples : one wolf, two wolves; one life, two lives; one wife, two wives.

• Il y a toujours quelques exceptions : • Sheep, deer sont invariables. Fish est invariable quand il s'agit de poissons en général,

mais prend son pluriel en "-es" quand on parle de différentes espèces ou races depoisson, c'est-à-dire "How many fish are in the tank?" est une phrase correcte si onparle de poissons rouges uniquement, on dirait cependant "How many fishes areknown to science?". Il est toujours possible d'éviter ce genre d'irrégularité en utilisantla construction "How many kinds of fish are known to science?", ce qui est de toutefaçon une construction plus normale pour la plupart des anglophones.

• les pluriels umlaut (indiqués par la mutation d'une voyelle) :• one man, two men • one woman, two women • one foot, two feet • one tooth, two teeth • one mouse, two mice • one louse, two lice • one goose, two geese

• pluriels en en :• ox — oxen• child — children• etc.

• pluriels classiques : • alumnus — alumni• alumna — alumnae• matrix — matrices• crisis — crises• criterion — criteria• addendum — addenda• fungus — fungi• etc.

• Pluriels des mots empruntés des langues autres que le latin ou le grec : • cherub — cherubim• chateau (sic) — chateaux• Inuk — Inuit• etc.

• d'autres pluriels irreguliers : • die — dice• (English) penny — pence

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• etc.

Le génitif Le génitif est en premier lieu le cas du complément de nom exprimant le possesseur. Enanglais il s'agit d'ajouter une apostrophe et la lettre S. Par exemple : • The cat's ball (la balle du chat)• The teenagers' ball (la balle des adolescents, teenagers est déjà pluriel)• The children's ball (la balle des enfants, child au pluriel ne prend pas de s.)• James's ball ou James' ball (la balle de James)On utilise le génitif dans une série limitée de cas précis a) « Possession » personnelle My brother's problems/ Mike's new car/ the customer's opinion b) Des groupes de personnes, ou des institutions qui représentent un groupe de personnes The team's performance / The government's policy / The committee's decision c) Personnification : il ne s'agit pas d'une personne, mais on fait comme si... London's opinion on the question / Washington's recent decision d) Pour exprimer l'équivalent de « chez » en français. I'm going to my cousin's / The party is at Michael's e) Pour des magasins et d'autres services professionnels I have to go to the doctor's/ the baker's / the ironmonger's / the estate agent's / thedry-cleaner's / the accountant's / The butcher's ... f) Dans quelques expressions de distance et de temps. We have a week's holiday. / Yesterday's film was excellent / It's three hours' drive from here/ I want a pound's worth of sugar.

Adjectifs • Contrairement au français, les adjectifs anglais sont invariables[1] .

• He is proud, she is proud, they are proud;• A black dog, black shoes;• My girlfriend, my parents;• Their daughter, their children;• The other day, the other solutions.

• L'adjectif épithète (ainsi que les mots qui le modifient) se place normalement avant lenom qu'il qualifie. • A big black car: « une grosse voiture noire. »• A really interesting visit : « une visite vraiment intéressante. »

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Verbes

Les auxiliaires Les verbes auxiliaires peuvent être utilisés pour définir le temps, l'aspect ou la modalitéd'une locution verbale.• BE sert à former:

• l'aspect BE ING : He is working on a new project.• le passif : The airport will be extended.

L'aspect BE ING et le passif peuvent être combinés : You are being filmed.• HAVE sert à former

• l'aspect HAVE EN au présent (present perfect) : I have never seen anything like it.• et au passé (past perfect ou pluperfect) : We had already called twice.

En plus, les formes du verbe « do » sont utilisées pour quelques négatifs, questions et pourl'accentuation du présent et passé simple : 1. "Do I listen?" "I do not listen." "I do listen!" 2. "Did I listen?" "I did not listen." "I did listen!"

Les temps de l'indicatif

Les temps du présent • Le Simple present (ou simplement present). S'emploie pour les mêmes occurrences

que le français, à l'exception de la nuance décrite ci-dessous au niveau du présentcontinu.

Exemple : I listen, You listen, He/She/It/One listens, We listen, You listen, They listen.Note : Thou listenest (2e personne du singulier) et He/She/It listeneth sont des formesvieillies. Voir plus bas pour approfondissement• Le Present continuous (ou present progressive). Ce temps sert à indiquer une action

qui se passe en ce moment. Ainsi, il faut bien avoir à l'esprit que si l'on veut dire «j'écoute de la musique », par exemple, il faut en français rajouter « en ce moment », afind'obtenir non pas « I listen to music » mais « I am listening to music ». Ce temps peutaussi servir à distinguer quelque chose par sa relative exceptionnalité, ainsi la phrase « Iam studying Latin » exprimera que c'est une action qui peut être relativementinhabituelle par rapport à hier ou à demain, a contrario de la phrase « I study Latin », quisignifierait plutôt qu'il s'agit de quelque chose de normal et d'habituel. Ce temps peutenfin servir à indiquer une action future, pour peu qu'un indicatif temporel vienne lesouligner (exemple : We're seeing a film tomorrow).

Exemple formel : I am listening, You are listening, He/She/It/One is listening, We arelistening, You are listening, They are listening. • Le Present perfect (ou simplement perfect). Ce temps sert à parler d'une action dont le

commencement se situe dans le passé, et qui continue à avoir une incidence sur leprésent. Il s'agit d'un temps du présent, car le verbe have sur lequel il est construit estconjugué au présent.

Si le contexte est clairement passé, l'anglais n'utilise pas le present perfect mais le preterit ou simple past. Ainsi la phrase suivante est incorrecte: Bob, who is now dead, has seen the

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movie many times (« Bob, qui est aujourd'hui mort, a vu le film plusieurs fois ») : le fait queBob soit mort place tout ce qui le concerne dans un contexte passé. Si l'énoncé comporte unmarqueur de temps passé (in the past, three days ago, when I was young, etc.) l'utilisationdu present perfect n'est pas possible, pour la même raison. Le français fait un usage trèsdifférent du passé composé, temps qui ressemble par sa formation au present perfect : ainsien français il est parfaitement possible de dire « j'ai terminé le travail hier » ou « nous noussommes mariés en 1965 ». En revanche, Il n'y a pas de grande différence de sens entre Idid it many times (faisant usage du passé) et I've done it many times. Ce temps peut faireoffice de fonction de present perfect continuous quand il est modifié par une phraseindiquant la durée du temps depuis le début de l'action. Ainsi I have worked on this projectsince March est l'équivalent de I have been working on this project since March. (laproposition I have worked on this project for six months est équivalent du perfectcontinuous en termes de sens).Exemple : I have listened, You have listened, He/she/It/One has listened, We have listened,You have listened et They have listened.• Le Present perfect continuous est utilisé pour indiquer que quelque chose a commencé

dans le passé et vaut toujours pour le présent.Exemple : I have been listening, You have been listening, He/she/It/One has been listening,We have been listening, You have been listening et They have been listening.

Les temps du passé • Le Simple past ou prétérit. On l'utilise pour exprimer une action achevée, qui s'est

produite à un moment défini dans le passé. (En anglais, contrairement à d'autres languesavec le temps aoriste, ce temps indique que l'action a eu lieu dans le passé, et qu'elle n'aplus lieu.) Plusieurs étudiants de l'anglais confondent le simple past et le present perfect,et trouvent difficile de distinguer entre les deux. Ce qui ajoute à la difficulté, c'est quel'anglais américain préfère utiliser le passé simple, là où quelqu'un qui parle une autrevariante de l'anglais préférerait le present perfect.

Exemple : I/You/He/She/It/One/We/You/They listened • Le Past perfect ou pluperfect. Il exprime une action achevée, dans le passé, et avant

une autre, a priori évoquée conjointement. Le pluperfect exprime donc une action «encore plus » dans le passé, relativement à l'autre. Une phrase au past perfect agénéralement besoin d'un second verbe ou groupe verbal pour clarification : « Herealized he had been fooled. » Le past perfect est notamment utilisé pour le discoursindirect : « She said her husband had already gone away. »

Exemple : I/You/He/She/It/One/We/You/They had listened • Le prétérit continu (aussi connu comme imperfect, Past continuous ou past

progressive): sert à parler d'une action « incomplète », produite dans le passé. Souvent,les professeurs d'anglais utilisent des phrases commençant par « when » ou « while »pour expliquer la différence entre le past simple et le past continuous : "While I waswatching TV, the telephone rang", meaning the same as "When the telephone rang, I waswatching TV."

Exemple : I was listening, You were listening, He/She/It/One was listening, We werelistening, You were listening, They were listening.

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• Le Past perfect continuous ou simplement « perfect continuous ». Généralement utiliséavec un indicatif de durée, il indique qu'un événement s'est poursuivi pour un certaintemps, et qu'il a été achevé avant un autre événement évoqué.

Exemple : When Peter entered my room, I had been listening to music for half an hour.(Quand Peter entra dans ma chambre, j'avais déjà écouté de la musique pendant unedemi-heure)Exemple formel : I/You/He/She/It/One/We/You/They had been listening

Les temps du futur • Le Simple future : utilisé pour exprimer qu'un événement va se passer, dans le futur, ou

d'une action que le sujet entend accomplir. Notez que certains manuels considèrent « begoing » plus un infinitif comme une autre forme de simple future. Il y a parfois dessituations où « will do » ou « be going to do » est plus fluide ou plus en accord avec lecontexte, mais ils sont généralement équivalents.

Exemple : I shall/will listen, You will listen, He/She/It/One will listen, We shall/will listen,You will listen, They will listen • Le Future continuous. Utilisé pour parler d'un événement qui n'a pas encore

commencé, parallèlement à l'action ou au laps de temps évoqué(e).Exemple : I will be waiting for you when your plane lands.Exemple : I shall/will be listening, You will be listening, He/She/It/One will be listening, Weshall/will be listening, You will be listening, They will be listening• Le Future perfect. Indique une action qui arrive avant une seconde action dans le futur

: Normalement deux actions futures sont exprimées, et le future perfect indique qu'unedes deux actions sera alors du passé par rapport à l'autre (e.g. "I will know the tune nextweek because I will have listened to it").

Exemple : I shall/will have listened, You will have listened, He/She/It/One will have listened,We shall/will have listened, You will have listened, They will have listened • Le Future perfect continuous. Exprime une action de continuité qui aura lieu dans

l'avenir avant une autre action exprimée également dans l'avenir.Exemple : I will have been waiting for two hours when her plane finally arrives. Exempleformel : I shall/will have been listening, You will have been listening, He/She/It/One willhave been listening, We shall/will have been listening, You will have been listening, Theywill have been listening

Les temps du conditionnel • Le Present conditional ou simplement "conditional". Exprime qu'un événement dans le

passé aurait lieu dans l'avenir , ou que le locuteur avait l'intention de faire quelquechose.

Exemple : I should/would listen, You would listen, He/She/It/One would listen, Weshould/would listen, You would listen, They would listen • Le Present continuous conditional. Utilisé pour exprimer un événement continuel qui

n'avait pas été initié encore.Exemple : I should/would be listening, You would be listening, He/She/It/One would belistening, We should/would be listening, You would be listening, They would be listening • Le Conditional perfect. Indique qu'une action aurait lieu après un autre événement.

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Exemple : I should/would have listened, You would have listened, He/She/It/One would havelistened, We should/would have listened, You would have listened, They would have listened

• Le Conditional perfect continuous. Exprime une action continuelle qui aurait lieu dansl'avenir, dans le passé après un autre événement.

Exemple : I should/would have been listening, You would have been listening,He/She/It/One would have been listening, We should/would have been listening, You wouldhave been listening, They would have been listening

L'impératif A la différence du français où existe un impératif passé (inusité), l'impératif en anglaisn'existe qu'au temps présent. Il a comme en français seulement trois personnes (tu, nous etvous). A la deuxième personne, il consiste simplement en la base verbale. A la première dupluriel, on fait précéder la base de let us couramment abrégé en let's.Exemple avec le verbe to walk :walklet's walkwalkNB : On peut construire, sur le modèle de let's, les "particules" let him/her/it/them pourdonner une troisième personne au mode impératif.Exemple : Let them hate us so long as they fear us. Qu'ils me haïssent, pourvu qu'ils me craignent.(Caligula)

Le subjonctif Le subjonctif se distingue en anglais de l'indicatif dans trois circonstances : 1. à la troisième personne du singulier du présent de l'indicatif, 2. avec le verbe to be au présent, 3. aux première et troisième personnes du singulier du verbe to be au passé. Par ailleurs, les auxiliaires modaux ne s'utilisent pas au présent du subjonctif ; tout dumoins pas en tant que tel.

Present indicative Present subjunctive Past indicative Past subjunctive

to own(regular verb)

I ownhe/she/it/one ownswe/you/they own

I ownhe/she/it/one ownwe/you/they own

I ownedhe/she/it/one ownedwe/you/they owned

I ownedhe/she/it/one ownedwe/you/they owned

to be I amhe/she/it/one iswe/you/they are

I behe/she/it/one bewe/you/they be

I washe/she/it/one waswe/you/they were

I werehe/she/it/one werewe/you/they were

subjonctif présentexemple : I asked that it be done yesterday. subjonctif passéexemple : If that were true, I'd know it. construction avec un verbe modal

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Le mode du subjonctif peut être exprimé à l'aide des modaux shall (should) et may (might).Par exemple : • I recommend that he (should) be taken away. • (May) the Lord bless you and keep you. • I put your dinner in the oven so that it (should) keep warm. • He wrote it in his diary so that he (might) remember.

Les anciens pronoms En Early Modern English (soit la période allant approximativement de la deuxième moitiédu XIVe siècle à 1650), le pronom thou était en usage ; ainsi que ye, qui a donné naissanceau you pluriel, et qui, semble-t-il, était employé dans certaines occurrences parallèlement àthou, deuxième personne du singulier.Thou renvoie à la deuxième personne du singulier. C'est la forme directe (fonction de sujet),la forme oblique (fonction de complément objet) étant thee et la forme génitive (fonction decomplément du nom) étant thine. L'adjectif possessif associé est thy, et le pronom réfléchithyself. (Si l'on veut une analogie avec un autre pronom, les formesthou/thee/thine/thy/thyself correspondent respectivement à I/me/mine/my/myself à lapremière personne.)Les verbes réguliers sont régis par des règles assez simples, valables pour le présent et lepassé : la seconde personne du singulier prend -(e)st et la troisième -th. Les irrégularités del'anglais moderne semblent être solubles dans cette règle, voir les exemples suivants : • to know : thou knowest, thou knewest • to drive : thou drivest, thou drovest • to make : thou makest, thou madest • to love : thou lovest, thou lovedest Les verbes suivants sont irréguliers sur thou (sont indiqués leur présent sur thou, voire leurpassé sur thou et/ou leur présent sur it) :• to be : thou art (ou thou beest), thou wast (ou thou wert ; originellement thou were) - it is• to have : thou hast, thou hadst • to do : thou dost (ou thou doest, quand non utilisé en tant qu'auxiliaire) et thou didst• may : thou mayest (ou thou mayest) - it may• shall : thou shalt • will : thou wilt Aussi, pour les autres verbes que to be, le subjonctif passé était distinguable du passé del'indicatif en Early Modern English à la seconde personne du singulier. Par exemple :indicatif : thou sattest, mais subjunctif : thou sat.Dans quelques textes qui utilisent thou, -est ou -st est parfois ajouté ; par exemple, thoubeest apparaît fréquemment dans les œuvres de Shakespeare et de ses contemporains.

Leur survivance moderne Le pronom thou est aujourd'hui sorti de l'usage courant et a laissé place à you dans tous lescontextes. Toutefois, ce pronom et les formes associées ont été maintenus dans les prières(dont le texte a été figé) : ainsi, de nombreux chrétiens anglophones emploient toujoursthou en s'adressant à Dieu (par exemple, la traduction anglaise du Notre Père commencepar : Our Father, which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name...).

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Notes [1] Il n'y a qu'un adjectif variable en anglais : blond / blonde (He is blond, and she is blonde). Mais cette

distinction, outre qu'elle est soupçonnée de sexisme, n'est pas faite systématiquement.

Voir aussi • Controverses sur la grammaire anglaise• Conjugaison anglaise• Liste de verbes irréguliers en anglais

Liens externes • (fr) Once a teacher, always a teacher. (http:/ / perso. wanadoo. fr/ jean-claude. guegand/ )

- Cours d'anglais sur le site d'un professeur d'anglais agrégé.• (fr) ilearnenglish.fr (http:/ / www. ilearnenglish. fr/ ) - Leçons et exercices de grammaire

sur un site conçu par deux professeurs d'anglais enseignant en lycée, BTS et université.

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Sources des articles et contributeursGrammaire anglaise  Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=40570901  Contributors: Antoinel, Aristarché, Ausr52, Caerbannog, Camster,Carbone14, Cmondy, Crochet.david, David Berardan, Dextrase, Dhatier, Ejph, Fred Hunter, Frederic.chotard, Gh, Goliadkine, Gribeco, Grstain, Gwalarn,Hoplaaaa, JNélis, Johncmullen1960, Julien888, LUDOVIC, La maîtresse, Labé, Laurent Nguyen, Lgd, Lionel sittler, Lmaltier, Loreleil, Mglovesfun,Ndnd59, Petrusbarbygere, Sbaccon, Schiste, Sherbrooke, Stéphane33, Timuche, Trontois, ~Pyb, 74 anonymous edits

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If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts, replace the "with...Texts." line with this: with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST.

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