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learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé
though
sens, valeurs énonciatives et syntaxe
sens > relativiser, pointer une contradiction,
prendre conscience,
revenir sur un déjà-dit, un a priori, un présupposé, une affirmation pour le / la contredire, nuancer, développer
sens : différence avec but
thoughconjonction > syntaxe
SVO + thoughconjonction + SVO
Les 2 propositions (SVO) reliées par though peuvent être séparées par un point et même par un alinéa :
That kind of hedging is more typical of Al Qaeda, which has called on its fighters to avoid operations that would cause mass casualties among Muslim civilians.
In reality, thoughconjonction [ mais / pourtant ], Al Qaeda, like ISIS, continues to kill large numbers of Muslims in its attacks.
Butconjonction [ mais ] that has not stopped the two groups from arguing about it.
Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim
Countries,
thoughconjonction > syntaxe
thoughconjonction + ellipse du sujet et du verbe + adjectif
The lander, thoughconjonction small,
[ même si il est de petite taille / quoique de petite taille
énoncé théorique : it is small ],
(about a yard wide when folded for travel through space), is loaded with sensors, cameras, test chambers, a microscope, a rock grinder and a sampling arm that in theory can dig down five feet into the Martian soil. Three Spaceships
Heading on Journeys to Mars, NYT,
autres énoncés
NYPD Said Killing of Kawaski Trawick Appeared “Justified.” Video Shows Officers Escalated Situation. Screenshot ProPublica 4 December 2020
Warning: graphic
Footage shows the killing of the 32-year-old Black man in his home by a white officer — over the objections of his Black, more-experienced partner. Both officers are still on duty. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2M5aOlX_4
Few Facts, Millions Of Clicks: Fearmongering Vaccine Stories Go Viral Online
March 25, 2021 5:00 AM ET NPR
The odds of dying after getting a COVID-19 vaccine
are virtually nonexistent. and Prevention, you're three times more likely to get struck
by lightning. and death have been among the most highly engaged with content online this year, going viral in a way that could hinder
people's ability to judge the true risk in getting a shot. misinformation: With social media platforms making more of an effort to take down patently false health claims, bad actors are turning to cherry-picked truths to drive misleading narratives. Experts say these storylines are much harder for companies to moderate, though [ même si ] they can have the same net effect of creating a distorted and false view of the world.
"It's a really insidious problem," said Deen Freelon, a communications professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "The social media companies have taken a hard line against disinformation; they have not taken a similarly hard line against fallacies."
Few Facts, Millions Of Clicks:
Trump Encourages His Supporters To Get COVID-19 Vaccine, Within Limits of 'Freedoms'
Former President Trump on Tuesday recommended that all eligible Americans get the coronavirus vaccine when their opportunity comes, though [ même si ] he added a caveat that he also respects people's decisions to not get one.
Trump had faced growing calls to encourage his supporters — especially Republican men who have voiced cynicism about the vaccine — to get vaccinated.
Trump Encourages His Supporters To Get COVID-19 Vaccine,
Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence
in Muslim Countries JULY 2, 2016 The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
The first to be killed was a jogger, gunned down last September
during his daily run in the leafy diplomatic quarter of Bangladesh’s capital,
Dhaka. He was identified as a 50-year-old Italian aid worker, and the police say
the men who murdered him had been given instructions to kill a white foreigner
at random. which has called on its fighters to avoid operations
that would cause mass casualties among Muslim civilians. like ISIS, continues to kill large numbers of Muslims in its attacks. But that has not stopped the two groups from arguing about it.
Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim
Countries,
In the new movie Youth, an elderly, retired composer-conductor is called upon to conduct for the first time in years. He's an Englishman named Fred Ballinger — and the request is from Queen Elizabeth II. It seems Ballinger's composition Simple Songs, written when he was a much younger man, is the only thing the Queen's husband, Prince Phillip, will listen to. That premise necessarily makes a few demands of the film. Someone had to play Ballinger convincingly, which Michael Caine does. More importantly, thoughconjonction [ mais ], someone had to compose a piece of music that could plausibly account for Prince Phillip's fictitious fondness, and for Ballinger's fictitious fame. That job was handed to David Lang. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer spoke with NPR's Robert Siegel about the curious task of writing music fit for royalty, from the perspective of an artist well past his glory days. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version below.
'We Use Music To Understand Where We Are': David Lang On
The Music Of 'Youth'
In the years since I’d done this simple act in church, I have prayed at home and in hospital waiting rooms. I have prayed for my daughter to live, for the bad news to not be true, for strength in the face of adversity. I have prayed with more desperation than a person should feel.
I have prayed in vain.
This prayer, thoughconjonction [ mais ], was different.
It was a prayer from my girlhood, a prayer for peace and comfort and guidance. It was a prayer of gratitude. It was a prayer that needed to be done in church, in a place where candles flicker and statues of saints look down from on high; where sometimes, out of nowhere, the spiritually confused can still come inside and kneel and feel their words might rise up and be heard.
A Prayer at Christmas, NYT, 24.12.2012,
The draughtsman uses an optical device constructed as a frame. Recent publications by David Hockney have suggested that artists after and during the Renaissance resorted to all sorts of optical equipment in order to improve the artificiality of their medium. The notion of the frame as a filmic device, and also as a drawing device, is related very significantly to the notion of a frame-up.
Thoughconjonction [ alors que ] we imagine the draughtsman rules the roost and governs the action, he's in fact slowly, scene by scene, being framed.
Soconjonction the notion of the subject matter of the film - to frame somebody, that is, to put them up as a victim of a conspiracy of some description - is also relative to the way the film itself is very self-consciously framed.
The form and the content should ideally be brought closely together.
Murder he drew:
Thoughconjonction [ même si ] Mars has long intrigued humans, especially those who dream of extraterrestrial life, it has repeatedly humbled anyone rich and venturesome enough to send metallic proxies across millions of miles of space to try to learn its secrets. (...) The lander, thoughconjonction small, [ même si il est de petite taille / quoique de petite taille ], (about a yard wide when folded for travel through space), is loaded with sensors, cameras, test chambers, a microscope, a rock grinder and a sampling arm that in theory can dig down five feet into the Martian soil.
Three Spaceships Heading on Journeys to Mars, NYT, Première occurrence : début de l'article.
Mr Arafat warned the Palestinian "forces" -fighters belonging mainly to his Fatah faction and to the Islamist Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements- not to give "pretexts" that would aid Mr Sharon's designs. They heeded his counsel, partiallyadverbe. Thoughconjonction [ alors querhétorique / argumentatif ] they agreed to end attacks on civilians in Israel and firing on Jewish settlements from Palestinian-controlled areas, they did not agree to end armed actions in defence of Palestinians towns and villages still under occupation. The
beginning of the end of the Palestinian uprising?, E, p. 49, 29.9.2001.
All we see is the pain Szpilman feels as he hides in an apartment where he must stay perfectly silent - even thoughconjonction [ alors même que ] there is a piano in the room. His desire, his need, to play is etched on Brody's face. Later, thoughconjonction [ bien que ] starving and emaciated, [ ellipse de he is > énoncé théorique : he is starving and emaciated ] he plays at last.
Visions of Hell, GE2/Review, p. IV, 10.1.2003,
She was a popular actress in both silent films and talkies, thoughconjonction [ même si, valeur : relativisation ] she never attained the heights of such stars as Mary Pickford or Clara Bow. Mary Brian:
Dans ce paragraphe, les 2 propositions sont séparées par une phrase :
It doesn't seem a very substantial way to start a long day - after this interview to promote her first album since 1998, C'mon C'mon, she is taping Parkinson and MTV - but she insists that she's just finished a "huge" breakfast. What Crow unexpectedly radiates is old-fashioned star quality, and when you're caught in its glare on a shared sofa, it's easy to appreciate how she managed to land her first professional gig, as a backing singer on Michael Jackson's Bad tour, by gatecrashing a Los Angeles audition.
A&M Records were struck by her, too, deciding she was worth keeping on even after her "over-produced" first attempt at a solo album was shelved at a cost of $450,000.
Unfortunately, thoughconjonction [ mais ], the aura that draws all eyes to her [ GN complexe sujet de is ], as she clinks her teacup back on to the saucer in a swanky hotel, is absent from her music. ‘I worry about how these girls are sexualised at such a young
age’,
His own home is guarded by electronic gates. An old house, it is decorated in a modern style with wooden laminate floors and iron-framed glass-topped dining table. The back garden, thoughconjonction [ mais ], is the real gem.
Plumber gets his fingers burnt, GE, p. 16, 23-3-2002
Victim of a male-created sex industry thoughconjonction she was, [ = même si / malgré le fait que / en dépit du fait que / bien que ] Lovelace co-operated in the imposture of being a sexually liberated woman, to a public willing, for the time, to be gullible. Linda Lovelace obituary, T, p. 33, 24-4-2002.
Thoughconjonction [ = même si ] her office was yesterday insisting that Lady Thatcher was « desperate » to fulfil her public commitments – including promoting her new book, Statecraft – and would consider whetherconjonction she could attend signings and literary festivals as planned, aides said she would do « exactly what the doctor orders ».
The lady is not for talking:
Thoughconjonction [ même si ] workers managed to restore some electricity lines yesterday, during the half-hour time-out in Mr Arafat’s quarantine, the lights died down four times. Hungry, thirsty, but Arafat taunts Israel from remains of his
empire,
even though > "même si" > hypothèse probable
Trump's Border Wall Builders Carry On Even Though Projects May Never Be Completed
November 16, 2020 NPR
even though
"alors même que"
effet de focalisation, contraste
All we see is the pain Szpilman feels as he hides in an apartment where he must stay perfectly silent - even thoughconjonction [ alors même que ] there is a piano in the room. His desire, his need, to play is etched on Brody's face.
Later, thoughconjonction [ bien que ] starving and emaciated, [ ellipse de he is > énoncé théorique : he is starving and emaciated ] he plays at last. Visions of Hell, GE2/Review, p. IV, 10.1.2003,
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jan/10/
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