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The phrase "assumed it to" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where someone is making an assumption about something, but it requires a complement to be grammatically correct.
Example: "She assumed it to be true without any evidence."
Alternatives: "assumed it was" or "took it to be".
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While on course, JG 6 approached the airfield of Heesch and some of its pilots assumed it to be Volkel airfield.
Respondent, in its brief in this Court, assumed it to be the fact.
SAUCKEL: I assumed it to be the same chart as the one which was put before me as complete.
Jumping in had not been my first thought: the water was so opaque that I assumed it to be shallow.
"They just assumed it to be this slum or this place that was just a war zone".
There is no question but that some process of learning occurs here, and Lorenz assumed it to be highly specialized.
I called over my friend to have a look and we both assumed it to be around 5-7g in weight.
Overall, 68.9% of the respondents had personal experience of trespassing although 83.5% considered trespassing to be fairly or highly dangerous and 81.0% assumed it to be illegal.
His four-month holiday, therefore, was not the respite from exhaustion before embarking on a new path that everyone assumed it to be.
"I have assumed it to be suicide using Nembutal, but his widow has not provided me with the autopsy results that I have asked her for".
For too long, says de Waal, scientists have considered culture 'a concept antithetical to nature' and assumed it to be a human-only attribute.
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