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Mon oncle Elias (extrait . A. Conan Doyle )

• Seuls les verbes manquent dans ce test : les retrouver grâce à la liste et au sens de la phrase.
• Ce petit texte est extrait de : The Five Orange Pips - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  - de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Point de grammaire à relever : Would
• 'Would' ici est utilisé pour parler de choses qui se sont produites régulièrement dans le passé. Dans ce sens, 'would' est quelque peu similaire à 'used to'.
• Ex :
• 'Whenever Andy was thinking about his childhood, he would start crying.'
• Vocabulaire :
• fierce : violent
• quick-tempered : impulsif
• foul-mouthed :qui a des propos détestables
• Remarque :
• La construction des 2 adjectifs composés : quick-tempered ( someone who has a quick temper is 'quick-tempered' ) : foul-mouthed ( someone who says obscene words is 'foul-mouthed' ).

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1. 'My uncle Elias did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas to America when he was a young man,

2. and became a planter in Florida, where he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas to have done very well.

3. At the time of the war he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas in Jackson's army, and afterwards under Hood,

4. where he rose to be a colonel. When Lee did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas down his arms my uncle returned

5. to his plantation, where he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas for three or four years.

6. About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe, and did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham.

7. He did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas a very considerable fortune in the States (...). He was a singular man,

8. fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas angry (...).

9. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas if he ever set a foot in the town.

10. He had a garden and two or three fields round his house, and there he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas

11. his exercise, though very often for weeks on end he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas his room.

12. He drank a great deal of brandy and did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas heavily,

13. but he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas no society,

14. and he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take Je ne sais pas any friends, not even his own brother.'