ThVATT That-clause after attitudinal verb

MFTE ThVSTNCall

Definition

That complement clause preceded by an attitudinal verb.

Detection Rules

Verb from stance list followed by that-complement.

cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [word="that" & pos="IN"]
Word list (62 items)
agree agreed agreeing agrees anticipate anticipated anticipates anticipating complain complained complaining complains concede conceded concedes conceding ensure expect expected expecting expects fear feared fearing fears feel feeling feels felt forget forgets forgetting forgot forgotten hope hoped hopes hoping mind minded minding minds prefer preferred preferring prefers pretend pretended pretending pretends require required requires requiring wish wished wishes wishing worried worries worry worrying

Requires: word, lemma, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

hope that

fear 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

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