Impersonal Passive
People thought the earth wasn't round.
What is the right passive form for this sentence?
Can we say.......?
1- The earth was thought not to be round.
2- The earth was thought to not be round.
3- The earth wasn't thought to be round.
4- The earth was thought not to have been round.
5- The earth was thought to not have been round.
6- The earth was though to have not been round.
What is the right choice?
In my opinion 1,2,3,4,5 are all right. What do you think?
Top answer
1, 2 and 3.
- 1, 2 and 3.
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When we express the negative of something we think, we normally negate the verb 'think', not the verb in what we think. The negative of "I think the earth is round" is normally, "I don't think the earth is round", not "I think the earth isn't round".
That being so, "People didn't think the earth was round" is the natural active form, and "The earth wasn't thought to be round" is the
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