agree, allege, announce, assume, calculate,
claim, consider, decide, declare, discover, estimate, expect, feel, find, know, mention, propose,
recommend, say, show, suggest, suppose, think, understand.
that many other verbs are not used in this pattern, including
inform, persuade, reassure,
•remind, tell, warn.
With the verbs
agree, decide, forbid, hope, plan,
and
propose,
we can use
it + passive verb +
to-
infinitive
(notice that some of these are also used in the pattern
it + passive verb +
• It was agreed to postpone
the meeting.
•
It has been decided to build
a road around the village.
В
passive verb +
that-clause
is to use
subject + passive verb +
to-infinitive:
• It was expected that
the damage would be
or
•
The damage was expected to be
extensive.
•
It had been thought that
the chemicals convey important information to the
or
•
The chemicals had been thought to
convey important information to the brain.
of the verbs listed in the box in A can also be used in this pattern except for
agree,
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