📘 Les constructions verbe + verbe en anglais
📐 Infinitif avec to (règle générale)
Quand deux verbes se suivent, le 2e est à l’infinitif (to + BV) :
He offered to help me. / She wants to sing.
Verbes suivis de to + BV : want, wish, hope, plan, decide, refuse, agree, manage, seem, tend, pretend, fail, afford, offer, promise, expect, need, allow, ask, tell, advise, forbid…
📐 Infinitif sans to
| Contexte | Exemple |
|---|---|
| Modaux (can, must, should…) | I can help you. / You should work. |
| let + complément + BV | He let me play the violin. |
| make + complément + BV (obligation) | She made me work. |
| have + complément + BV (faire faire) | I’ll have him be polite. |
| would rather + BV | I would rather drink a coke. |
| had better + BV | I had better thank her. |
| Verbes de perception + BV | I heard him cry. / I saw her leave. |
📐 Gérondif (BV + -ing)
Employé comme sujet ou complément, après prépositions, et après certains verbes :
Verbes suivis du gérondif : enjoy, mind, avoid, suggest, consider, keep (on), finish, stop, admit, deny, give up, look forward to, be used to, can’t help, fancy, practice…
| Gérondif après préposition | Exemple |
|---|---|
| without | without saying a word |
| by | I learned English by listening. |
| before / after | before leaving / after eating |
| interested in / keen on | interested in learning |
📐 Verbes admettant les deux (sens différent)
| Verbe | + infinitif | + gérondif |
|---|---|---|
| stop | stop to do = s’arrêter pour faire | stop doing = cesser de faire |
| remember | remember to do = ne pas oublier de | remember doing = se souvenir d’avoir fait |
| try | try to do = essayer de | try doing = essayer (expérimenter) |
| forget | forget to do = oublier de | forget doing = oublier avoir fait |
| regret | regret to do = regretter de (maintenant) | regret doing = regretter d’avoir fait |