Happy Easter: Back to basics!

PASSIVE WITH VERBS OF SAYING AND BELIEVING: IT IS SAID (THAT)...


1.IT+ PASSIVE+ (THAT )CLAUSE WITH: agree, believe, consider, decide, hope, know, say


It is said (that )there is plenty of oil off our own coast.



2-THERE+ PASSIVE + TO BE WITH: believe, fear, know, report, say, suppose, think.

There is said to be plenty of oil off our own coast.

3. SUBJECT (NOT IT) + PASSIVE+  TO-INFINITIVE WITH: believe, consider, know, say, allege.

Jane /she is said to know all there is to know about chimpanzees.