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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Sentence Structure

Could someone please tell me the structure of this sentence,
"She was reported to have been shot..."

Is the sentence "She was reported" a one clause and "to have been shot" another one?

How are these two connected with each other?
Someone explain me in grammatical terms please.
Is it a special passive voice sentence structure?
  

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Anonymous Is the sentence "She was reported" a one clause and "to have been shot" another one? She was reported is not a clause in that sentence, only a fragment of the main clause (the entire sentence), in which the infinitival clause to have been shot is embedded. The function of the infinitival is complement to the verb reported .

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  • Anonymous Is the sentence "She was reported" a one clause and "to have been shot" another one?
  • She was reported is not a clause in that sentence, only a fragment of the main clause (the entire sentence), in which the infinitival clause to have been shot is embedded.
  • The function of the infinitival is complement to the verb reported .
  • Anonymous Is it a special passive voice sentence structure?
  • I suppose it’s “special” in that its active counterpart X reported her to have been shot would be much less usual ( X reported that she had been shot would be strongly preferred).
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AnonymousIs the sentence "She was reported" a one clause and "to have been shot" another one?
She was reported is not a clause in that sentence, only a fragment of the main clause (the entire sentence), in which the infinitival clause to have been shot is embedded. The function of the infinitival is complement to the
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AnonymousShe was reported to have been shot..
This comes from

Someone reported that someone had shot her.

With the passives:

It was reported (by someone) that she had been shot (by someone).

'was reported' is moved, and 'had been shot' becomes the infinitive 'to have been shot'.

She was reported to
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CalifJimbut the final form has only one.
I count five:

She was reported to have been shot
reported to have been shot
to have been shot
been shot
shot

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Aspara GusI count five
Hard to believe, but anyway, I added a word just to please you. Emotion: smile
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