This flashcard is about transforming an active voice sentence to the passive voice using passive infinitives, specifically the perfect infinitive. The example given is: 'Sandra was thought to have been living in Dubai for 3 years.'
Ce flashcard porte sur la transformation d'une voix active en voix passive en utilisant des infinitifs passifs, notamment l'infinitif parfait. L'exemple donné est : "Sandra was thought to have been living in Dubai for 3 years."
| Task | Transfer this Active voice sentence to the Passive one: We all thought that Sandra had been living in Dubai for 3 years. |
|---|---|
| Answer | 2 |
| a | Sandra was thought have been living in Dubai for 3 years. |
| b | Sandra was thought to have been living in Dubai for 3 years. |
| c | Sandra was thought that she had been living in Dubai for 3 years. |
| d | We were all thought that Sandra had been living in Dubai for 3 years. |
| 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 Perfect Infinitive after the reporting phrase 'was thought': [to + have+been+Past Participle] |
| topic | passive voice |
| level | 2 |
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