Reported Speech: Passive Reporting Structures
grammartop.com › reported-speech-passive-reportingthey’re called passive reporting structures. Meaning and use of passive reporting structures In informal language we often use impersonal expressions like: People think (that)… They say (that)… They expect (that)… In newspapers, reports and other more formal writing, this idea is often expressed with a structure based on a passive reporting verb. Passive structures hide the source of the