Infinitive complement

• have: None had been in a workshop, some professed never to have written a poem.

Modifies a noun

• belief: Your future is eternal rest, whilst theirs persistent grief, how much they will come to depend on hope of your professed belief.

• desire: At bottom, higher English requirements undermine New Zealand's professed desire to be a multicultural society.

• commitment: A quick glance at the recent histories of these companies shows their professed commitment to sustainable development to be rather spurious.

• faith: A Mexican student investigating the possibility of doctoral studies next year professed faith on the afternoon he flew back to Mexico.

• aim: In Britain, the Government's recently professed aim was to put a laptop on the desk of every school child.

Modifying Another Word

• even: Even professed libertarians, for the most part, keep hating liberalism closer to the heart of their beliefs than they keep libertarianism itself.

• never: I've never professed to being a good DJ, and what I lack in technical skill and musical knowledge.

Used with adjective complement

• have: I 've never professed to being a good DJ, and what I lack in technical skill and musical knowledge.