SUASIVE Suasive verbs
Definition
Verbs expressing commands, requests, or suggestions: command, demand, request, suggest, insist, propose, etc.
Detection Rules
mfte
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"]
Word list (11 items)
command
demand
insist
propose
recommend
request
suggest
urge
ask
require
order
pybiber
cql[word={words} & pos="VB.*"]
Word list (144 items)
agree
agreed
agreeing
agrees
allow
allowed
allowing
allows
arrange
arranged
arranges
arranging
ask
asked
asking
asks
beg
begged
begging
begs
command
commanded
commanding
commands
concede
conceded
concedes
conceding
decide
decided
decides
deciding
decree
decreed
decreeing
decrees
demand
demanded
demanding
demands
desire
desired
desires
desiring
determine
determined
determines
determining
enjoin
enjoined
enjoining
enjoins
ensure
ensured
ensures
ensuring
entreat
entreated
entreating
entreats
grant
granted
granting
grants
insist
insisted
insisting
insists
instruct
instructed
instructing
instructs
intend
intended
intending
intends
move
moved
moves
moving
ordain
ordained
ordaining
ordains
order
ordered
ordering
orders
pledge
pledged
pledges
pledging
pray
prayed
praying
prays
prefer
preferred
preferring
prefers
pronounce
pronounced
pronounces
pronouncing
propose
proposed
proposes
proposing
recommend
recommended
recommending
recommends
request
requested
requesting
requests
require
required
requires
requiring
resolve
resolved
resolves
resolving
rule
ruled
rules
ruling
stipulate
stipulated
stipulates
stipulating
suggest
suggested
suggesting
suggests
urge
urged
urges
urging
vote
voted
votes
voting
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Sources
- biber_1988 — Biber, Douglas (1988) : Variation across Speech and Writing
- pybiber — Brown, David West & Reinhart, Alex (2026) : pybiber — Python package for linguistic feature extraction and Multi-Dimensional Analysis
- xiao_2009 — Xiao, Richard (2009) : Multidimensional analysis and the study of world Englishes
- grieve_2023 — Grieve, Jack (2023) : Register variation explains stylometric authorship analysis
Notes
Not in MFTE as a separate category.