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এই পরীক্ষায় এই টপিক থেকে ১টি প্রশ্ন — complex sentence passive transformation।
Options: (a) The despot had been thought to be corrupt. • (b) It was thought that the despot was corrupt. • (c) The despot was thought to be corrupt. ✓ • (d) The despot is thought to be corrupt.
For 'People/They/Everyone thought/believed/said + that-clause' constructions, two passive forms are valid: (i) It was thought that... or (ii) The subject was thought to be...
People thought that the despot was corrupt.
→ It was thought that the despot was corrupt.
People thought that the despot was corrupt.
→ The despot was thought to be corrupt.
| Active | Passive |
|---|---|
| Subject — Verb — Object | Object — be + V3 — by Subject |
| She writes a letter. | A letter is written by her. |
| He ate the apple. | The apple was eaten by him. |
| Tense | Active | Passive |
|---|---|---|
| Simple Present | does | is done |
| Present Continuous | is doing | is being done |
| Present Perfect | has done | has been done |
| Simple Past | did | was done |
| Past Continuous | was doing | was being done |
| Past Perfect | had done | had been done |
| Simple Future | will do | will be done |
| Future Perfect | will have done | will have been done |
| Modal | can do | can be done |
| Active pattern | Passive pattern |
|---|---|
| Let X do Y | Let Y be done (by X) |
| Imperative (Open the door.) | Let the door be opened. |
| 'It is time to do X' | It is time for X to be done |
| 'People say that X' | It is said that X / X is said to be... |
| 'They believe X to be Y' | X is believed to be Y |
| Question (Did you write it?) | Was it written by you? |
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