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Thought Sandra Living Dubai Years Passive Voice Infinitive

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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