ToVEFRT To-clause after effort verb
Definition
To-clause preceded by a verb of effort.
Detection Rules
Verb from list + to + verb base form.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (76 items)
allow
allowance
allowanced
allowances
allowancing
allowed
allowing
allows
attempt
attempted
attempting
attempts
enable
enabled
enables
enabling
encourage
encouraged
encourages
encouraging
fail
failed
failing
fails
help
helped
helping
helps
instruct
instructed
instructing
instructs
manage
managed
manages
managing
obligate
obligated
obligates
obligating
oblige
obliged
obliges
obliging
order
ordered
ordering
orders
permit
permits
permitted
permitting
persuade
persuaded
persuades
persuading
prompt
prompted
prompting
prompts
require
required
requires
requiring
requisition
requisitioned
requisitioning
requisitions
seek
seeking
seeks
sought
tried
tries
try
trying
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
try to
manage to
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