ThVLIK That-clause after likelihood verb
Definition
That complement clause preceded by a likelihood verb.
Detection Rules
Verb from stance list followed by that-complement.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [word="that" & pos="IN"]
Word list (68 items)
assume
assumed
assumes
assuming
believe
believed
believes
believing
doubt
doubted
doubting
doubts
gather
gathered
gathering
gathers
guess
guessed
guesses
guessing
hypothesise
hypothesised
hypothesises
hypothesising
hypothesize
hypothesized
hypothesizes
hypothesizing
imagine
imagined
imagines
imagining
predict
predicted
predicting
predicts
presume
presumed
presumes
presuming
presuppose
presupposed
presupposes
presupposing
reckon
reckoned
reckoning
reckons
seem
seemed
seeming
seems
speculate
speculated
speculates
speculating
suppose
supposed
supposes
supposing
suspect
suspected
suspecting
suspects
think
thinking
thinks
thought
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
believe that
assume 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