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Exercise The Passive With Reporting Verbs

The document contains exercises on using reporting verbs in the passive voice. It provides sample sentences and blanks to fill in with the appropriate passive form of the reporting verb. The exercises focus on replacing active reporting verbs like "believe", "say", and "know" with their passive forms to remove the explicit subject and focus on the content being reported rather than who is doing the reporting.

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Exercise The Passive With Reporting Verbs

The document contains exercises on using reporting verbs in the passive voice. It provides sample sentences and blanks to fill in with the appropriate passive form of the reporting verb. The exercises focus on replacing active reporting verbs like "believe", "say", and "know" with their passive forms to remove the explicit subject and focus on the content being reported rather than who is doing the reporting.

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The passive with reporting verbs – exercises

1) People believe that neither team deserved the victory.

- Neither team _________________________ the victory.


- It _________________________________ the victory.

2) People said he was a hero.

- He __________________________ a hero.
- It ___________________________ a hero.

3) People know she lied to her manager.

- She __________________________ to her manager.


- It __________________________ to her manager.

4) Some people say that if you dream of fish, someone you know is pregnant.
_________________________ that if you dream of fish, someone you know is pregnant.

5) Historians believe that this castle was built over 1,200 years ago.
_________________________ to have been built over 1,200 years ago.

6) We know that pollution affects the ozone layer.

____________________________________ to affect the ozone layer.

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