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Is it allowed to rewrite [repeating the subject] this passive sentence:

She is reported to have died in a plane crash.

into this:

She is reported that she has died in a plane crash.

I'm in doubt because the first passive sentence has the construction:

subject + passive verb + infinitive

and I don't know whether the second sentence is still acceptable grammatically because it uses the same subject twice and makes it look ineffective.

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No, your second sentence is not grammatical. It would be permissible to say "It is reported that she has died in a plane crash." In that case, the "it" would refer to the entire clause after "that" -- i.e. the fact (that she has died in a plane crash) is reported.

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