Playing and Working with words/70

Playing and Working with words/70
Message de here4u posté le 12-09-2025 à 15:22:41 (S | E | F)
Hello dear Friends!

Voici votre nouveau casse-tête favori ! Depuis les vacances d'été où il n'était pas recommandé de donner du travail à cause de la désertion du site par les membres, je suis un peu perdue dans les dates des différents travaux. Je pense être en retard concernant la phrase de septembre... Je vais donc la donner plus facile (si c'est possible... ) et elle sera à rendre pour fin septembre 2025. Je sais que certains doivent piaffer d'impatience et sans doute m'en vouloir un peu... Sorry!... You can go for it now!

Toujours beaucoup de sollicitations, tentations et obligations qui nous détournent de l'anglais, mais bon ! Tout le monde peut réfléchir et faire marcher ses neurones même si l'été et la rentrée nous ont un peu accaparés !

Espérons que vous parviendrez à vous trouver du temps pour travailler avec nous un petit moment !
N'oubliez pas de vous creuser les méninges avec nous...

Je vous rappelle que cet exercice a des règles qui doivent être respectées. Lisez-les bien si vous ne les connaissez pas ! Ce travail est loin d'être un jeu... mais il peut être très ludique... Il vous laisse également toute liberté de choisir votre thème!

Using THE 8 WORDS given below (the 2 verbs can be put in whatever tenses or forms you fancy but MUST remain verbs!), 2 adjectives or adverbs, 2 nouns and 2 link words, + a given structure and the suitable punctuation, search your minds, think hard and create AN ONLY meaningful SENTENCE. " Easy", isn't it? (In fact, it's more easily said than done and advanced learners or natives can step in if they wish to!! )

- You CANNOT change the nature of the words!
- You CANNOT use two or more compulsory words consecutively!

PLEASE, WHEN YOU WRITE YOUR SENTENCE, PUT CAPITALS TO THE GIVEN WORDS! [and specify the number of words at the end.]

Je vous rappelle qu'« une phrase », une seule, se termine par un point [final, d'exclamation ou d'interrogation], peut avoir de la ponctuation interne ",/; /:/ [...], et qu'elle doit avant tout avoir un sens. (Il ne doit y avoir qu'UN SEUL POINT dans votre phrase - à la fin.) Le but ultime est de faire une seule phrase complexe, mais courte... Je le répète : elle doit avoir un sens et sa logique interne !
Cet exercice est TRES difficile, c'est pourquoi il demande beaucoup de réflexion et d'attention, de rigueur aussi dans l'application des règles. Vous ne devez le poster QU'UNE FOIS (ne faire qu'un seul exemplaire, mais vous pouvez éditer votre production en m'indiquant le changement auparavant ! )

Pour que chacun ait la possibilité de travailler avec nous, cet exercice a des niveaux différents. Vous pouvez choisir celui qui vous convient :
Le niveau fera une seule phrase en moins de 80 mots.
Le niveau une seule phrase et toujours 60 mots, au plus.
Le niveau **, pour les plus habiles, fera une phrase de moins de 40 mots...
I'm sure you'll have inspiration...

Here are the words :

- To SEIZE - To HOLD - a PROJECT - a BREATH - MUTELY - MINUTELY - AS IF (one word) - UNLESS - un irréel:

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C'est parti pour une " très jolie phrase correcte et courte ! Go for it! Courage !
May THE FORCE be with all of us! ☀️ ☀️

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de icare29, postée le 14-09-2025 à 18:48:55 (S | E)
-Hello Here4u ... here is my sentence


To SEIZE - To HOLD - a PROJECT - a BREATH - MUTELY - MINUTELY - AS IF (one word) - UNLESS - un irréel:
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"playing cate and mouse"

If you had acted MINUTELY , gone ahead MUTELY, keeping your BREATH, doing AS IF you hadn't seen him , the PROJECT to SEIZE the thief and HOLD him by his collar would have been a success, UNLESS you had another solution in mind to catch him....


thanks for your correction

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de here4u, postée le 15-09-2025 à 15:20:56 (S | E)
Hello Icare,

Well done!

'To play CAT and mouse' sans E à cat! [sinon on devrait prononcer cate [keit])

Therefore remember that the order of words is: subject, verb, and DOC [direct object complement] + other complements.
Ne jamais séparer un verbe de son COD.

TB pour 'AS IF you hadn't seen him ' as if + past perfect: irréel du passé (in fact, you had seen him...)

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de mad14, postée le 23-09-2025 à 18:22:15 (S | E)
Hello Here4U - Good week

Her father rose AS IF to go out, she SEIZED the opportunity after PROJECTING her plan MINUTELY, she HELD her head high, got a deep BREATH declaring she WANTED to marry Julia, UNLESS her father has lost his speech, he nodded MUTELY.(41 words)

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de here4u, postée le 26-09-2025 à 22:08:09 (S | E)
Hello dear Mad!

Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de mad14, postée le 23-09-2025 à 18:22:15 (S | E)
Hello Here4U - Good week

Her father rose AS IF to go out, she SEIZED the opportunity after PROJECTING her plan MINUTELY, (punctuation?) : she HELD her head high, got a deep BREATH declaring she WANTED to marry Julia,! UNLESS her father has lost his speech, he nodded MUTELY.(41 words)

Bien, mais pour une compréhension totale, il faudrait améliorer la ponctuation...

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de littlerene24, postée le 28-09-2025 à 17:49:38 (S | E)
Hello everybody, nice to read you again.

Here is my sentence:

I was SEIZED by surprise and HELD my BREATH, then sat MUTELY for a long time; the PROJECT we had so MINUTELY conceived, was subitely AS IF it never had got a reality, UNLESS it was just a nightmare. (39 Words)

pour la correction.

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de here4u, postée le 29-09-2025 à 18:20:37 (S | E)
Hello dear workers, readers, and shy ones...

Those of you who have found their way through my maze are really deserving! Indeed, they are, and were...

In September, things were supposed to start again, and they have, on some threads, but perhaps not on all of them.
Thanks a lot to those of you who have spent some (and certainly a lot) of their free time to work on theis difficult
exercise.
I cannot help but feel guilty for posting late (I was at least 4 days late, compared to other months...) I should have tried to make thinks easier for you, and I did try, but didn't succeed... SORRY!

Here are the sentences you made with the given words:

-Hello Here4u ... here is my sentence

"playing cate and mouse"

If you had acted MINUTELY , gone ahead MUTELY, keeping your BREATH, doing AS IF you hadn't seen him , the PROJECT to SEIZE the thief and HOLD him by his collar would have been a success, UNLESS you had another solution in mind to catch him....

thanks for your correction(sent by mp)
Well done!

- 'To play CAT and mouse' sans E à cat! [sinon on devrait prononcer cate [keit])

Besides, remember that the order of words is: subject, verb, and DOC [direct object complement] + other complements.
Ne jamais séparer un verbe de son COD.

TB pour 'AS IF you hadn't seen him ' as if + past perfect: irréel du passé (in fact, you had seen him...)
- Attention à la ponctuation.

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- Her father rose AS IF to go out, she SEIZED the opportunity after PROJECTING her plan MINUTELY, she HELD her head high, got a deep BREATH declaring she WANTED to marry Julia, UNLESS her father has lost his speech, he nodded MUTELY.(41 words)

Her father rose AS IF to go out, * she SEIZED the opportunity after PROJECTING her plan MINUTELY, (punctuation?) : she HELD her head high, got a deep BREATH declaring she WANTED to marry Julia,! UNLESS her father has lost his speech, he nodded MUTELY.(41 words)
* Ici, j'attendais 'he', le sujet du premier fragment... Etrange et ... dur pour les lecteurs, de changer ainsi de sujet sans "prévenir" !
Bien, mais pour une compréhension complète, il faudrait améliorer la ponctuation...


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- I was SEIZED by surprise and HELD my BREATH, then sat MUTELY for a long time; the PROJECT we had so MINUTELY conceived, was subitely AS IF it never had got a reality, UNLESS it was just a nightmare. (39 Words)

Dommage que ce mot nous tombe dessus alors qu'il n'existe pas... Facile à corriger. Bon travail !

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- 'IF I HAD GOT enough money, I would MUTELY have run my business PROJECT, taken a deep BREATH to SEIZE the day, and MINUTELY have done my best to succeed AS IF nothing had happened; UNLESS you work hard in life, excuses won't hold up!/ no excuses will hold up!'

Bravo!

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Si certains d'entre vous veulent soumettre leurs trouvailles, tout est bien venu...

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de snoopy59, postée le 30-09-2025 à 23:33:50 (S | E)
IF I HAD GOT enough money, I would MUTELY have run my business PROJECT, taken a deep BREATH to SEIZE the day, and MINUTELY have done my best to succeed AS IF nothing had happened; UNLESS you work hard in life, any excuses don't HOLD UP.

42 words

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de here4u, postée le 01-10-2025 à 00:00:36 (S | E)
Hello snoopy!

Glad you've posted your sentence! a lot!

That's a good sentence, indeed. Apart from the ending, which I'm not sure I understand, the rest is perfect.

IF I HAD GOT enough money, I would MUTELY have run my business PROJECT, taken a deep BREATH to SEIZE the day, and MINUTELY have done my best to succeed AS IF nothing had happened; UNLESS you work hard in life, any excuses don't HOLD UP.

- any: n'importe quelles ?
I think your sentence would be clearer and (shorter... ) if we wrote: 'unless you work hard in life, excuses won't hold up!/ no excuses will hold up!'

42 words: 47 words.

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Réponse : Playing and Working with words/70 de snoopy59, postée le 01-10-2025 à 01:47:23 (S | E)
Thank you for everything you do to make us keep going.
God Bless you!

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