1) The document discusses making subordinate sentences passive by changing the structure of sentences with a main clause and subordinate clause. 2) It provides an example of changing the sentence "People think that Jill is a very intelligent person" into the passive form "Jill is thought to be a very intelligent person by people". 3) It notes that a phenomenon to avoid is using a personal pronoun that refers to something mentioned later, like the example given of changing "Tom's sister believe that he is very generous" into the passive correct form of "Tom is believed to be very generous by his sister".

1. PASSIVE II
Subordinate Sentences made Passive
JJSE Feb 2013

2. Esta construcción requiere dos oraciones, una principal y una subordinada.
La oración principal:
People think
La oración subordinada:
that Jill is a very intelligent person.

3. Observamos que la oración principal no tiene Objeto Directo
People think
En realidad SÍ tiene, el Objeto Directo es la oración subordinada:
What do people think?
that Jill is a very intelligent person.

4. La oración principal contiene uno de estos verbos:
acknowledge
allege
admitir, reconocer
afirmar, alegar
assume
suponer
believe
creer
claim
reclamar, reivindicar
consider
considerar
estimate
calcular, hacer una estimación, pero no 'sentir estima'
expect
esperar = tener esperanza

5. feel
sentir
find
encontrar, descubrir
know
saber
make
hacer, obligar
presume
report
suponer
decir, informar
say
decir
see
ver
think
understand
pensar, creer
entender

6. Primero: separamos las oración principal de la subodinada
People think that Jill is a very intelligent person.

7. Segundo: tomamos el sujeto de la oración subordinada…
People think
y lo colocamos al comienzo.
that Jill is a very intelligent person.

8. Tercero: averiguamos el tiempo del verbo principal…
People think
that
is a very intelligent person.
Jill
think = Present Simple

9. y ponemos 'to be' después del sujeto, en ese mismo tiempo
People think
that
is a very intelligent person.
Jill is
To be = Present Simple

10. Cuarto: el Past Participle del verbo principal
People think
that
is a very intelligent person.
Jill is thought
think = thought

11. Quinto: el verbo de la oración subordinada en infinitivo
People
that
Jill is thought to be
is
= to be
is a very intelligent person.

12. Sexto: añadimos el resto de la oración
People think
Jill is thought to be
that
a very intelligent person

13. Final: añadimos el sujeto de la oración principal al final, con 'by'
Jill is thought to be a very intelligent person by people.
¡pero no en este caso!

14. Un fenómeno indeseable es el uso de un pronombre personal con una
referencia posterior:
Tom's sister believe that he is very generous
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He is believed to be very generous by Tom's sister.
Esta frase sería correcta si 'He' fuese una
persona, y 'Tom' fuese otra persona distinta.

15. Corrección:
Tom's sister believe that he is very generous
Tom is believed to be very generous by his sister.