ThJFCT That-clause after factive adjective
Definition
That complement clause preceded by a factive adjective.
Detection Rules
Adjective from stance list followed by that-complement.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [word="that" & pos="IN"]
Word list (16 items)
apparent
certain
clear
confident
convinced
correct
evident
false
impossible
inevitable
obvious
positive
right
sure
true
well-known
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
certain that
obvious 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