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assure, ensure, insure
Message de traviskidd posté le 11-10-2005 à 17:38:57 (S | E | F | I)

Beaucoup d'anglophones se trompent souvent en distinguant les verbes assure, ensure, et insure. Faîtes mieux qu'eux en mettant la bonne forme du bon verbe dans les phrases suivantes:

1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my new house -------!
2) I ------- you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ------- that no prisoners will escape.

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Edité par bridg le 11-10-2005 17:41
type de correction? MP ou ici dans ce cas date de la correction ?
+ cotation
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Edité par traviskidd le 11-10-2005 17:47
Correction ici, bientôt (lorsqu'il paraîtra que tout le monde qui voudra répondre l'aura fait).

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de romanne, postée le 11-10-2005 à 17:53:03 (S | E)
Hello,

1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my house insured!
2) I can assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape.

I have added can in the second sentence because I have already heard it that way. But is it necessary?

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Edité par traviskidd le 11-10-2005 18:01
No, it's not necessary. (In fact "I can assure you" is closer in meaning to "I am completely sure".)

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de jier, postée le 11-10-2005 à 18:33:35 (S | E)
Ave Travis,

1 ... insured.
2 ... assure ...
3 ... ensure ...

Puis-je me permettre une suggestion ? Dans ce type d'exercice , qui s'apparente aux QCM, il serait souhaitable de proposer un nombre d'applications qui soit nettement supérieur au choix offert.
Sinon, un nombre de propositions égal à celui des applications, c'est trop facile. Enfin, ce n'est que mon point de vue qui, comme de bien entendu, n'engage que moi et ma longue expérience (hélas !) due à mon âge conséquent. Please, I wish you wouldn't regard me as a presumptuous guy, which I'm not in the least. Just trying to be helpful.
Cordialement vôtre,
Jier

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Edité par traviskidd le 11-10-2005 20:21
Vous avez un bon point, mais 1) je suis assez paresseux , et 2) je n'ai pas voulu compliquer les choses; je voulais simplement présenter nettement la distinction entre ces trois mots en plaçant chaqu'un dans son propre exemple.
A un autre fois, peut-être (comme dirait post-scriptum ), d'appliquer ces concepts dans un exercice plus long.

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de cat3, postée le 11-10-2005 à 18:38:27 (S | E)
hello,traviskidd

1-Insured
2-assure
3-ensure

,Traviskidd

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de post-scriptum, postée le 11-10-2005 à 20:01:04 (S | E)
Good evening Traviskidd,

1. I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my house insured!
2. I assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3. Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape.

Thank you Traviskidd. See you soon.

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de aimen7, postée le 11-10-2005 à 21:16:53 (S | E)
Hello traviskid,
Très bonne idée ce petit exercice, assez petit même, mais bon suffisant pour bien distinguer le sens de ces trois verbes.
1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my new house insured!
2) I assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape.

Merci travis.

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de kayrol, postée le 11-10-2005 à 21:30:09 (S | E)
Hello Travis

1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my new house insured !
2) I assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape.

Please reassure me did I make any mistakes ?

Kayrol

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Edité par traviskidd le 12-10-2005 06:50
Rest assured, you didn't!

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de isa71, postée le 11-10-2005 à 21:33:35 (S | E)
hello traviskid

1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my new house insured!
2) I assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape.

isa

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de lynx_300, postée le 12-10-2005 à 09:01:18 (S | E)
Hello Traviskidd,

1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my new house insured!
2) I assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape.

See you,
Lynx

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Edité par lynx_300 le 12-10-2005 09:01

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de gewurz, postée le 12-10-2005 à 11:14:55 (S | E)
Bonjour Traviskidd,

1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my new house insured!
2) I assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape.

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de masselotte, postée le 13-10-2005 à 07:51:57 (S | E)
Bonjour traviskidd

1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my new house insured !
2) I assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape.

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de monica69, postée le 13-10-2005 à 08:08:48 (S | E)
Hello,
1) I've just moved to an area that is constantly hit by both earthquakes and hurricanes! Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting my new house insured!
2) I assure you, Sir, that I won't let anything bad happen to your daughter tonight.
3) Prisons employ guards in order to ensure that no prisoners will escape

I 've found this exercise very interesting.
See you.
Monica.

Réponse: assure, ensure, insure de traviskidd, postée le 18-10-2005 à 01:09:14 (S | E)
Oops, I almost forgot! Although most of you got all three sentences correct, I did promise you a correction, so here it is:

1) insured
(to insure a thing = 1. to promise, in a contract, to reimburse the owner of the thing against a loss in its value 2. to obtain such a promise)
get + past participle = faire faire

2) assure
(to assure a person = to make the person feel confident, to make a promise to the person)

3) ensure
(to ensure an event = to eliminate any possibility that the event won't happen)

"I can't ensure that a flood won't happen, but, if you insure your house against flood, I can assure you that you won't lose money even if a flood should happen."

Good job!

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