This flashcard is about transforming an active voice sentence to the passive voice using continuous passive infinitives. It explains that the continuous infinitive is used after the reporting verb. The sentence is: 'Mr. Jacobson was reported to be playing football at that time.'
Ce flashcard porte sur la transformation d'une voix active en voix passive en utilisant des infinitifs passifs continus. Il explique que l'infinitif continu est utilisé après le verbe de rapport. La phrase est : "Mr. Jacobson was reported to be playing football at that time."
| Task | Transfer this Active voice sentence to the Passive one: They reported that Mr. Jacobson was playing football at that time. |
|---|---|
| Answer | 4 |
| a | Mr. Jacobson was reported to be played football at that time. |
| b | They reported that Mr. Jacobson had been playing football at that time. |
| c | Mr. Jacobson was reported was playing football at that time. |
| d | Mr. Jacobson was reported to be playing football at that time. |
| comment | Passive Infinitive helps us construct sentences more gracefully and rationally. Also it is better to choose to-infinitive in order to avoid mentioning pronoun agents like 'we, they, all, everybody, etc.' Here we use the Continuous Infinitive after the reporting phrase 'was reported': [to + be+ verb+ing] |
| topic | passive voice |
| level | 2 |
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