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

Requires: word, lemma, pos

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