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Is it possible to change A to B?
A. The newspaper reported that he commited a crime.
B, He was reported as an offender in the newspaper.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: Re: be reported as |
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| Junkomama wrote: |
Is it possible to change A to B?
A. The newspaper reported that he commited a crime.
B, He was reported as an offender in the newspaper.
1...Committing a crime and being an offender are not necessarily the same thing.
2...Say, He was reported, by the newspaper, to have committed a crime.
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Thank you very much, 2006-san!!
Then, "be reported as something" itself is acceptable?
For example, is it OK to say "He was reported as a murderer." instead of "He was reported to have commited a murder." ?
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Junkomama wrote: |
Thank you very much, 2006-san!!
Then, "be reported as something" itself is acceptable
No, in this context we don't say "reported as something"; we say 'reported to be something'.
For example, is it OK to say "He was reported as a murderer." instead of "He was reported to have commited a murder." ? No, say 'He was reported to be a murderer.'
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Thanks a lot for your kind teaching, 2006-san!!
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