Les pronoms personnels, réfléchis, réciproques

Objectifs

  • Connaître et utiliser correctement les pronoms personnels sujets et compléments.

  • Maîtriser la formation et les emplois des pronoms réfléchis (réfléchi, emphatique, expressions figées).

  • Distinguer les pronoms réciproques each other et one another.

  • Éviter les erreurs fréquentes liées aux calques du français (verbes non réfléchis en anglais, confusion entre them et themselves, etc.).

Tableau général des pronoms personnels

En anglais, les pronoms personnels changent de forme selon leur fonction dans la phrase. On distingue :

  • Le pronom sujet : il réalise l’action du verbe.
  • Le pronom complément : il reçoit l’action du verbe ou suit une préposition.
  • Le pronom réfléchi : il renvoie au sujet lui-même.
  • L’adjectif possessif : il indique l’appartenance et est toujours suivi d’un nom.
  • Le pronom possessif : il remplace un nom déjà connu.
À retenir :
Ne pas confondre :
  • my + nom → my book
  • mine seul → This book is mine.

Tableau des pronoms personnels

Pronom sujet Pronom complément Pronom réfléchi Adjectif possessif Pronom possessif
I me myself my mine
you
(singulier)		 you yourself your yours
he him himself his his
she her herself her hers
it it itself its its (rare)
we us ourselves our ours
you
(pluriel)		 you yourselves your yours
they them themselves their theirs

Exemples d’utilisation

Fonction Exemple
Pronom sujet She works in London.
Pronom complément I saw him yesterday.
Pronom réfléchi He did it himself.
Adjectif possessif This is my phone.
Pronom possessif This phone is mine.
Attention :
Les adjectifs possessifs sont toujours suivis d’un nom :

✅ This is their house.
❌ This house is their.

Pour remplacer le nom, on utilise un pronom possessif :
✅ This house is theirs.

Exercices sur les noms en anglais

Exercice 1 – Remettez les adjectifs dans l’ordre correct.

  1. a (red / beautiful / small) flower
  2. a (Japanese / new / black / sports) car
  3. an (old / wooden / charming) cottage
  4. a (plastic / blue / cheap) toy
  5. a (French / young / talented) singer

Corrigé

Exercice 1

  1. a beautiful small red flower
  2. a new black Japanese sports car (opinion new → taille/size implicite non mentionnée, black → couleur, Japanese → origine, sports → purpose/usage)
  3. a charming old wooden cottage
  4. a cheap blue plastic toy (opinion cheap → couleur blue → matière plastic)
  5. a talented young French singer

Exercice 2 – Complétez avec la forme comparative ou superlative qui convient.

  1. This exercise is __________ (difficult) than the previous one.
  2. She is __________ (intelligent) student in the school.
  3. Today is __________ (hot) than yesterday.
  4. That was __________ (bad) film I’ve ever seen.
  5. My grandfather is __________ (old) than yours.
  6. This is __________ (little) expensive restaurant in town.
  7. She speaks English __________ (fluently) than me.
  8. Of all the candidates, he is __________ (qualified).

Corrigé
  1. more difficult
  2. the most intelligent
  3. hotter
  4. the worst
  5. older
  6. the least
  7. more fluently
  8. the most qualified

Réécrivez les phrases en utilisant la structure indiquée.

  1. If you eat a lot, you gain a lot of weight. (the more… the more…)
  2. The weather is becoming increasingly unpredictable. (more and more)
  3. Tom is 1m80. Paul is 1m80. (as… as…)
  4. This bag costs €20. That bag costs €50. (less… than)
  5. No other city in the world is as big as Tokyo. (superlatif)

Corrigé

Exercice 3

  1. The more you eat, the more weight you gain.
  2. The weather is becoming more and more unpredictable.
  3. Tom is as tall as Paul.
  4. This bag costs less than that one. (ou is less expensive than that one)
  5. Tokyo is the biggest city in the world.

Exercice 4 – Corrigez les erreurs (une par phrase).

  1. She is more taller than me.
  2. That’s the more beautiful painting I’ve ever seen.
  3. This coffee is not as hot that the one you made.
  4. He is the worstest player in the team.
  5. My elder brother is more old than yours.
  6. It’s getting more and more cold outside.
  7. She is as intelligent than her sister.

Corrigé

Exercice 4

  1. She is taller than me. (supprimer more)
  2. That’s the most beautiful painting I’ve ever seen. (the most)
  3. This coffee is not as hot as the one you made. (as… as)
  4. He is the worst player in the team. (worst est déjà le superlatif)
  5. My elder brother is older than yours. (ne pas mélanger elder avec than ; elder s’emploie sans than)
  6. It’s getting colder and colder outside. (adjectif court)
  7. She is as intelligent as her sister. (as… as)

Exercice de synthèse

A. Mettez les adjectifs entre parenthèses dans l’ordre correct.

  1. He bought a __________ (leather / brown / large) suitcase.
  2. We visited a __________ (medieval / French / beautiful) village.
  3. She wore a __________ (silk / red / stunning) dress.
  4. They live in a __________ (modern / white / huge) house.
  5. I found an __________ (Italian / interesting / old) book.

B. Complétez avec le comparatif ou le superlatif.

  1. This is __________ (good) pizza I’ve ever eaten.
  2. She is __________ (ambitious) her brother.
  3. He arrived __________ (early) expected.
  4. Of the three sisters, she is __________ (young).
  5. Your accent is __________ (bad) mine!
  6. The __________ (much) you read, the __________ (much) you learn.
  7. This story is even __________ (strange) the previous one.

C. Traduisez en anglais.

  1. Plus nous attendons, plus la situation empire.
  2. Mon chien est beaucoup plus gros que le tien.
  3. C’est le film le moins intéressant de la série.
  4. Elle est de plus en plus impatiente.
  5. Ce n’est pas aussi facile que je le pensais.

D. Choisissez la bonne forme.

  1. My (older / elder) sister is a doctor.
  2. This is the (farthest / furthest) I’ve ever run.
  3. She is (the happiest / happiest) person I know.
  4. He is (less rich / not as rich) as his cousin.
  5. The weather is getting (colder and colder / more cold and more cold).

Corrigé

A.

  1. a large brown leather suitcase
  2. a beautiful medieval French village
  3. a stunning red silk dress
  4. a huge modern white house (taille → âge → couleur, modern = âge)
  5. an interesting old Italian book

B.

  1. the best
  2. more ambitious than
  3. earlier than
  4. the youngest
  5. worse than
  6. more, more
  7. stranger than

C.

  1. The longer we wait, the worse the situation gets.
  2. My dog is much bigger than yours.
  3. It’s the least interesting film in the series.
  4. She is getting more and more impatient.
  5. It’s not as easy as I thought.

D.

  1. older (car suivi de than implicite ? La phrase ne contient pas de comparaison avec than, mais on dit my older sister quand on a plusieurs sœurs ; elder sister est aussi possible si on reste dans la famille sans comparaison avec than. Les deux sont acceptables ici, mais older est plus courant. Je proposerai older car elder est vieilli sauf usage très formel. Acceptons les deux.)

  2. farthest (distance physique)

  3. the happiest

  4. not as rich (plus naturel que less rich ; les deux sont grammaticalement corrects, mais not as rich as est plus courant pour la comparaison d'égalité négative)

  5. colder and colder

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