ThVFCT That-clause after factive verb

MFTE ThVFCT MFTE ThVSTNCall

Definition

That complement clause preceded by a factive verb.

Detection Rules

Verb from factive list followed by that-complement. Verbs also in COMM list (e.g., “mean”) are excluded because MFTE checks ThVCOMM before ThVFCT (lines 1468 vs 1474).

cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [word="that" & pos="IN"]
combine: _ & !ThVCOMM
Word list (84 items)
conclude concluded concludes concluding demonstrate demonstrated demonstrates demonstrating determine determined determines determining discover discovered discovering discovers find finding finds found knew know knowing known knows learn learning learns learnt mean meaning means meant notice noticed notices noticing notified notifies notify notifying observe observed observes observing prove proved proven proves proving realise realised realises realising realize realized realizes realizing recognise recognised recognises recognising recognize recognized recognizes recognizing remember remembered remembering remembers saw see seeing seen sees show showed showing shown shows understand understanding understands understood

Requires: word, lemma, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

know that

discover 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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