Question

He was known to be a learned man. ( Begin: People__)

Answer 1

The correctly transformed sentence is as follows:

'People knew him to be a learned man.'

• Since it has been instructed in the question to begin the sentence with 'People', the subject changes from 'Him' to 'People'.
• The given sentence has been transformed into the active voice. Therefore the verb changes back to its simple past form. The helping verb is no longer required in the simple past form.
• The predicate remains the same.

Answer 2

Answer:

people know him to be a learned man