angelene001
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I've got a problem with this sentence:
I watched TV yesterday.
If I want to use 'He claimed', which infinitive should I use?
1.He claimed to watch TV yesterday.
or
2.He claimed to have watched TV yesterday.
And similar situation with this one:
They thought that he watched TV.
1.He was thought to watch TV.
or
2.He was thought to have watched TV.
Is present infinitive used only for future simple, future continuous and present simple, present continuous?
Or can we use it for past tenses to show that the tense of reporting verb (past simple) is the same as the tense of the infinitive?
I watched TV yesterday.
If I want to use 'He claimed', which infinitive should I use?
1.He claimed to watch TV yesterday.
or
2.He claimed to have watched TV yesterday.
And similar situation with this one:
They thought that he watched TV.
1.He was thought to watch TV.
or
2.He was thought to have watched TV.
Is present infinitive used only for future simple, future continuous and present simple, present continuous?
Or can we use it for past tenses to show that the tense of reporting verb (past simple) is the same as the tense of the infinitive?