Corrigé modaux au passé : exercices d’anglais terminale

1. You should have gone to bed earlier.
2. They must have forgotten the meeting.
3. She can’t have seen us from that distance.
4. I might have left my phone on the bus.
5. We shouldn’t have bought such an expensive car.
6. He could have won the race if he hadn’t fallen.

Le modal reste invariable, seul le participe passé porte le sens passé.

1. R (reproche)
2. D (déduction à partir des lumières éteintes)
3. R (regret)
4. D (impossibilité logique)
5. R (regret, registre soutenu)
6. D (déduction quasi certaine)

1. must have : déduction à partir de la vitre cassée.
2. shouldn’t have : reproche.
3. can’t have : le contraire de must have n’est jamais mustn’t have.
4. might have : le locuteur n’est pas sûr.
5. needn’t have : action faite mais inutile.
6. could have : possibilité non réalisée.

1. He should have revised.
2. She shouldn’t have gone out in the snow without a coat.
3. We should have taken a map.
4. I shouldn’t have stayed up until 3 a.m.
5. The coach should have changed the players.
6. They shouldn’t have spent all their savings on a holiday.

1. She must have cried / must have been crying.
2. He must have been on holiday.
3. The dog can’t have eaten it.
4. He must have studied hard.
5. She can’t have gone to the party.
6. Someone must have come in with dirty shoes.

1. She may/might have taken the wrong road.
2. The parcel may/might/could have been delivered to a neighbour. (passif : have been + V-en)
3. They may/might not have received our invitation. (à la négative, on évite could not have, qui exprimerait l’impossibilité)
4. He may/might have been joking.
5. The thief may/might/could have used a ladder.
6. I may/might have made a mistake in the calculation.

1. You should have warned me.
2. They must have got lost.
3. She can’t have left without saying goodbye to us.
4. He may/might have forgotten his appointment.
5. We shouldn’t have come.
6. You could have hurt yourself!
7. You needn’t have brought a present.

1. Il devait dormir / Il a dû s’endormir quand nous avons appelé.
2. Tu aurais pu demander de l’aide.
3. Elle ne peut pas avoir pensé ce qu’elle a dit.
4. Nous avons peut-être pris la mauvaise sortie.
5. J’aurais dû écouter mes parents.
6. Ils n’avaient pas besoin de nous attendre. (ils ont attendu, inutilement)

1. You should have told me the truth.
2. She must have left her bag at school.
3. They can’t have gone home so early.
4. He can’t have seen us: he didn’t wave.
5. I should have studied harder.
6. We could have won the match.

1. The thief can’t have entered through the window.
2. Mr Grey can’t have taken the painting.
3. Someone must have used Molly’s key (la seule clé existante).
4. Molly may/might have lost the key, or perhaps she is lying.
5. The ladder must have been used recently.
6. Lord Ashby should have locked the library with a better system.

Réponses modèles :

1. He should have left home earlier.
2. She must have trained very hard.
3. He can’t have run 40 km in an hour!
4. He might have missed his train.
5. We could have had a terrible accident.
6. I needn’t have revised that chapter.