Question: How can I rewrite this sentence to maintain the 3rd person academic tone? Is my answer correct?
1. You have probably figured out that the boy named Walter was Walter Elias Disney.
My answer: One has probably figured out that the boy named Walter was Walter Elias Disney.
To maintain a 3rd person academic tone, you can rewrite the sentence as follows:
"It is likely that the boy named Walter was Walter Elias Disney."
The key here is to replace the second-person pronoun "you" with the impersonal pronoun "it" and the indefinite pronoun "one." This change helps to distance the sentence from the reader and maintain a more formal tone.