<p>If you say “It is thought to be red” when the modern view is that ‘it’ is red, that’s fine. If you want to say that we believe it used to be red, you would say “It is thought to have been red”. In each case, if you conjugate the verb after ‘thought’ and use it in a sentence with ‘it’ as the subject, you have a sentence describing the current beliefs about ‘it’; for example, “It is red” comes from ‘it’ and ‘to be red’, and “It has been red” comes from ‘it’ and ‘to have been red’. That’s where the construction “thought to have been” comes from.</p>
<p>Sorry if this is late/random, but I was surprised (and elated) at how easy the math sections were. I feel that I may have gotten every question correct. :)</p>
<p>If you put it that way, the modern view is that it was built this many years ago for the founder of this dynasty in the New Kingdom. So wouldn’t it be “believed to be built” then, according to your first example with “to be red?”</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem to matter, since with your reading comprehension, you can’t have done well on the rest of the test. I answered your question in the post where I recommended that you read the rest of the thread.</p>
<p>It’s nice to have “National Merit Semifinalist” (or finalist?) on your resume, but I’m sure colleges understand that the PSAT is simply one of many aspects of their “holistic” assessment of your abilities.</p>
<p>Edit - If you meant “Do colleges care if I don’t include my PSAT score?” or something, then no. I don’t think your score goes anywhere other than the National Merit… company or whatever, so no. You’d either put national merit semifinalist or you wouldn’t include it at all, and again, it’s one of many parts of your resume.</p>
<p>When I said ‘modern’, I meant that you are describing views in the present, so you should use the present tense. “It has been built” is present tense, and “It was built” was past tense, so ‘to have been built’ would be used. My explanation probably doesn’t make sense anyway, and this is probably making it worse, so it would be best to ignore it entirely.</p>
<p>There was nothing indicating that we would be bewildered, and the previous changes in cosmology described all transformed our understanding.</p>
<p>I’m not even sure we’re talking about the same question, and if we are, I’m not entirely sure why I put what I did; what I said is about as well as I can explain it without context.</p>
<p>I think to have been built falls under the category of not knowing exactly when the pyramid/structure was built. I’m not 100% sure because I usually don’t think about the reason behind the tense; I usually just go by what sounds better to me.</p>
<p>I tried googling “believed to be built” and “believed to have been built,” and both came up with a few pages. Wikipedia had a page including “believed to be built” and another page including “believed to have been built” as well. I is confused.</p>