ToVPROB To-clause after probability verb
Definition
To-clause preceded by a verb of probability.
Detection Rules
Verb from list + to + verb base form.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (16 items)
appear
appeared
appearing
appears
happen
happened
happening
happens
seem
seemed
seeming
seems
tend
tended
tending
tends
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
seem to
appear 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