reporting clause
Hello everyone! I'd like to ask you about the use of reporting clauses with verbs like "presume". Are all these following options acceptable as alternatives? Is one of them better than the other ones? Thank you in advance!

- I presume he's not angry.
- I don't presume he's angry.
- I don't presume him to be angry.

Question

reporting clause
Hello everyone! I'd like to ask you about the use of reporting clauses with verbs like "presume". Are all these following options acceptable as alternatives? Is one of them better than the other ones? Thank you in advance!

- I presume he's not angry.
- I don't presume he's angry.
- I don't presume him to be angry.

Answer

Grammatically, I don't see anything wrong with any of these, but the most natural sounding option to me would be "I don't presume he's angry."

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