I saw a headline similar to:
Mr. X Is Said to be Elected.
Is that a passive sentence? If so, what would the active sentence be?
Thank you.
Hmmm, it’s kind of a double passive: [[color=brown]is said/[color=green]to have been]
To make it a single passive you could say, “They say Mr X has been elected.”
And to make it all the way active you’d have to say something like, “They say the people have elected Mr X.”
Does this help?
Thank you.