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formes interrogatives / questions directes

 

haveauxiliaire

 

doauxiliaire

 

beauxiliaire 

 

 

 

In her navy blue track suit, Jasmine crosses her legs and shifts her gym bag more comfortably on to her lap. She sits opposite Dr Emma Fox, the consultant who runs Bridge, a pioneering sexual health clinic for under-20s at Guy's Hospital in south London. Jasmine explains tentatively that her contraceptive pill has been causing irregular bleeding and she doesn't know why. Fox notes her symptoms and runs through a list of questions.

"Is this

a regular sexual partner?";

"Is he from another country?";

"Do you use condoms?";

"Have you had any other sexual partners?"

Young, free and infectious:
Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are rising alarmingly;
overworked clinics are turning patients away;
and still young people aren't getting the message about unprotected sex.
Julie Wheelwright on Britain's teenage sexual health crisis,
headline and sub,
G,
29.6.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jun/29/
lifeandhealth.health 

 

 

 

 

 

What we know about her is confined to a few pages of triumphalist Roman history by Tacitus and some equally tendentious stuff by another historian, Dio Cassius. But every British schoolchild knows (one might hope) that Boadicea was the warrior queen from present-day East Anglia who rose against her Roman oppressors after they appropriated her Iceni tribe's estates and then flogged her and raped her two daughters for good measure. She mobilised her subjects, galvanised other British tribes in anti-imperialist war, sacked Rome's greatest British city (present-day Colchester), routed a well-trained legion, barrelled down the A12 with a huge army of spear-wielding tribal British toughs and burned London, then laid waste to St Albans before finally being crushed by the Romans in AD62.

Beyond this, however, things get sketchy. How did she die, and where? Did she fight in battle? Was she responsible for war crimes? What were the names of her raped daughters? Was she gay, straight, bi, lusty and/or busty? Did she really wear a bra? These are the questions preoccupying Hollywood.

(...)

So what do we really know about Boudicca? Have any bras nearly two millennium old been dug up by archaeologists at any of her supposed burial sites? Aldhouse-Green says not, although there have been other suggestive archaeological finds. "Some women were buried with their chariots in the centuries before Boudicca, so it's not impossible that she was. It was a status thing, probably. But all that we know about Boudicca is based on Roman histories and they portrayed her as almost superhuman. She was completely outside the Roman mentality. Britain was seen as being on the edge of the world where there were monsters, and reality was bent."

Return of the queen:
Little is known about Boadicea,
not even the proper spelling of her name.
But the warrior queen who gave the Romans an awful fright
is suddenly back in all her majesty
- as the subject of four new Hollywood movies.
Stuart Jeffries on the rebirth of a legend,
G, 30.6.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/jun/30/
features.stuartjeffries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voir aussi > Anglonautes >

Grammaire anglaise explicative - niveau avancé

 

formes interrogatives / questions directes

 

 

 

syntaxe >

séquences auxilaires / verbales :

 

active ≠ passive,

affirmative ≠ négative,

interrogative,

interro-négative,

infinitive,

impérative,

exclamative,

comparative,

elliptique,

résultative,

hypothétique

 

 

 

syntaxe > autres séquences :

 

toviseur,

ellipse,

SVO, OSV,

séquences -ing,

séquences -en,

clivée,

as...as

 

 

 

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