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Which sentence is correct?
The man is believed to have escaped in a stolen car.
The man is believed to escape in a stolen car.
2021년 2월 20일 오전 3:20
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"The man is believed to have escaped in a stolen car."
That is more correct.
It means that someone, or some people, believe that he escaped in a stolen car.
It's a weird sentence construction, but very common in news articles.
2021년 2월 20일
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The first one is correct :)
2021년 2월 20일
It is believed that the man has escaped in a stolen car.
Or, more simply:
The man escaped in a stolen car.
The first version is verbose, wordy, it has too many words but is correct.
"is believed" is strange and a construct that exists in a lot of other languages and is grammatically correct but strange in English.
2021년 2월 20일
The first one is correct because the verb tenses agree. In the second one you are using two different word tenses.
2021년 2월 20일
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