ThJEVL That-clause after evaluative adjective
Definition
That complement clause preceded by an evaluative adjective.
Detection Rules
Adjective from stance list followed by that-complement.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [word="that" & pos="IN"]
Word list (20 items)
amazing
appropriate
conceivable
crucial
essential
fortunate
imperative
inconceivable
incredible
interesting
lucky
necessary
nice
noteworthy
odd
ridiculous
strange
surprising
unacceptable
unfortunate
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
crucial that
surprising that
Sources
- biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version