Instructions: Select all the Passive Infinitive phrases that speculate about actions and events.
My answers are with capital letter
Labrador IS BELIEVED TO BE the place where the Inuit had first contact with Europeans. IT IS KNOWN that there was contact between the Inuit people and the Norse there. This region is KNOWN TO BE COLD and rocky. It is reported to have polar bears and hard small plants. The Inuit people of Labrador are said to want to break away and have the region become a separate province. Inuinnaqtun IS CONSIDERED TO BE one of the official Inuit languages.
All read correctly to me.
To determine the Passive Infinitive phrases that speculate about actions and events, we can look for verb phrases that express beliefs, knowledge, reports, or considerations about a particular subject.
Here are the Passive Infinitive phrases that fulfill these criteria:
1. IS BELIEVED TO BE
2. IS KNOWN
3. IS REPORTED TO HAVE
4. ARE SAID TO WANT TO
5. IS CONSIDERED TO BE
Therefore, the correct answers are:
- IS BELIEVED TO BE
- IS KNOWN
- IS REPORTED TO HAVE
- ARE SAID TO WANT TO
- IS CONSIDERED TO BE