that Prince Charles was alerted to the problem”. 2. Rewrite these sentences involving such a grammar feature as Extensive use of Subjective- with –the-Infinitive. You should begin with the words in italics. 1. It is reported that
the international criminal Jimmy Rosendale is living in Ireland.
2. People believe that
he is the head of a gang of bank robbers.
3. Everyone knows that
the gang has carried out a series of robberies.
4. It is supposed that
they have escaped with over
1 euro million.
5. It is thought that
they are targeting banks in small provincial towns.
6. They
say
Jimmy Rosendale is wanted for questioning by police in five countries.
7. We understand
he escape from police custody by bribing a warder.
8. It is assumed that
he has been involved
in criminal activities all his life.
9. People resume that
he learned his trade from his father.
10. It is alleged that
his father was the mastermind behind the 2001 gold bullion robbery.
3. Identify and comment upon the grammatical features in the following sentences taken from newspaper articles. 1. Strangely enough, the defendant refused to enroll the services of an attorney and
announced he would undertake his own defense.
2. The proceedings kicked off with the DA's
opening remarks which concentrated basically on the abundant physical evidence.
3. All attempts
by the defense team to present the defendant Dick Measly as a victim of a police conspiracy were
thwarted yesterday when the prosecution produced a critical testimony by Detective Clark
Terrence portraying Measly as a scheming career jockey.
4. A sob-raked Stanley, the defendant
in the USA vs Stanley case, was led away from the courtroom after the guilty verdict brought back
by the jury on three counts of murder.
