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    The document discusses using reporting verbs and passive voice to summarize information from other sources. It provides examples of rewriting sentences from active to passive voice by using reporting verbs like "believe", "report", and "know" followed by that. The examples summarize that foreign powers are believed to interfere in the economy, vaccines are reported to not completely prevent disease spread, and the terrorist group is known to have murdered the former president.

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    The document discusses using reporting verbs and passive voice to summarize information from other sources. It provides examples of rewriting sentences from active to passive voice by using reporting verbs like "believe", "report", and "know" followed by that. The examples summarize that foreign powers are believed to interfere in the economy, vaccines are reported to not completely prevent disease spread, and the terrorist group is known to have murdered the former president.

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    Passive With Reporting Verbs

    Uploaded by

    Zeynep Sudas
    The document discusses using reporting verbs and passive voice to summarize information from other sources. It provides examples of rewriting sentences from active to passive voice by using reporting verbs like "believe", "report", and "know" followed by that. The examples summarize that foreign powers are believed to interfere in the economy, vaccines are reported to not completely prevent disease spread, and the terrorist group is known to have murdered the former president.

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    Passive with reporting verbs.

    People believe that “foreign powers” interfere in


    our economy.

    It is believed that foreign powers interfere in our


    economy.

    Foreign powers are believed to interfere in our


    economy
    Scientists report that vaccines do not completely
    prevent the spread of the disease.

    It is reported that vaccines do not completely


    prevent the spread of the disease.

    Vaccines are reported not to completely prevent


    the spread of the disease.
    People know that the terrorist group murdered the
    former president.

    It is known that the terrorist group murdered the


    former president.

    The terrorist group is known to have murdered the


    former president.

    The former president is known to have been


    murdered by the terrorist group.

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