Passive Voice with Reporting Verbs

It + passive reporting verb + that-clause

• Personal Passive structure

• Impersonal Passive structure

Subject + passive reporting verb + to-infinitive

• Personal Passive structure

• Impersonal Passive structure

IT IS KNOWN THAT EATING FRUIT IS GOOD FOR YOU.

• Personal structure

• Impersonal structure

THE PALACE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN THE EARTHQUAKE.

• Personal structure

• Impersonal structure

THE COMPANY IS SAID TO HAVE PAID $50,000,000 FOR THE SHARES.

• Personal structure

• Impersonal structure

IT IS SAID THAT MR JOHNSON WAS DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH.

• Personal structure

• Impersonal structure

ONE OF THE GUESTS IS THOUGHT TO HAVE STOLEN THE JEWELS.

• Personal structure

• Impersonal structure

It is _________ that Mr Rohmer would be willing to pay up to a million dollars for the business.

• understand

• understanding

• understood

______ believed to be the first time that a polar bear killed a zookeeper.

• It is

• We

• We are

That criminal _________ to be dangerous.

• is known

• knows

• knew