Corrigé groupe nominal complexe : exercices d’anglais seconde

1. club : un club de football
2. council : le conseil municipal
3. driver : un chauffeur de bus scolaire
4. Secretary : le ministre de l’Intérieur
5. machine : un distributeur de billets de train
6. festival : un festival de musique d’été

1. a shoe shop (shoe au singulier)
2. a toothbrush
3. a maths teacher (maths garde son s : c’est le nom de la matière)
4. a car park
5. a police station
6. a tennis match
7. a water bottle

1. a two-hour journey
2. a twelve-year-old girl
3. a twenty-pound note
4. a 400-page novel
5. a five-mile walk
6. a fifteen-minute break

Le nom de mesure reste toujours au singulier.

1. e (un jardin fleuri)
2. c (une fleur de jardin)
3. a (une tasse à café)
4. f (une tasse de café)
5. b (une course de chevaux)
6. d (un cheval de course)

1. children’s books (génitif générique : un type de livres)
2. a cup of tea (on parle du contenu, la personne a soif)
3. the bottom of the page (partie d’un tout : of)
4. women’s magazine
5. kitchen table
6. end of the film

1. a few (vision positive : « ne t’inquiète pas »)
2. few (vision négative : « sadly »)
3. a few
4. few (le village se meurt)
5. a few (quelques fautes, mais bon devoir)
6. few (very few = très peu)

1. a little
2. little (presque aucun espoir)
3. a little (assez pour commander)
4. little (very little)
5. a little (a little longer = encore un peu)
6. little (ils peinent à payer)

1. fewer (cars est dénombrable)
2. less (plastic est indénombrable)
3. quite a few (pas mal de cousins)
4. too much (coffee indénombrable)
5. Little (information est indénombrable en anglais)
6. a few (people est un pluriel)

1. twice as many messages as adults : Les ados envoient deux fois plus de messages que les adultes.
2. half as much petrol as the old one : Cette voiture consomme moitié moins d’essence que l’ancienne.
3. three times as many books as her brother : Elle lit trois fois plus de livres que son frère.
4. twice as many students as yours : Notre lycée a deux fois plus d’élèves que le vôtre.
5. ten times as much pollution as a bus : Par passager, une voiture pollue dix fois plus qu’un bus. Pollution est indénombrable, donc much.
6. half as much homework as last year : J’ai moitié moins de devoirs que l’an dernier (homework est indénombrable).

1. Riverside has twice as many students as Hilltop. (1 200 contre 600)
2. Riverside has three times as many computers as Hilltop. (300 contre 100)
3. Riverside has half as many library books as Hilltop. (8 000 contre 16 000)
4. Hilltop spends twice as much money on sport as Riverside. (money : much)
5. Riverside’s playground is twice as big as Hilltop’s. (adjectif : as big as)

1. She is a twelve-year-old girl.
2. I bought a new bookshop guide.
3. We have few friends in this town, so we feel lonely. (dénombrable et vision négative)
4. He earns twice as much money as me.
5. There were fewer people than last year.
6. I’d like a cup of tea, please, with milk.
7. They have twice as many books as us.

1. a 300-page novel
2. the school canteen
3. a children’s clothes shop
4. I have a few questions.
5. There is little time left.
6. We have twice as much homework as last year.
7. a three-hour bus journey

Exemple de réponse modèle :

Repères : noms composés (school newspaper team, phone habits, screen time), adjectif composé (five-hour), twice as much … as, a few / very few, a little.