Category:English raising verbs

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. used to
  2. were
  3. acknowledge
  4. stop
  5. stand
  6. turn out
  7. continue
  8. say
  9. posit
  10. start out
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. know
  2. think
  3. begin
  4. become
  5. were
  6. report
  7. allege
  8. stay
  9. strike
  10. have

English verbs that, in a matrix or main clause, take an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause; in other words, a raising verb appears with a syntactic argument that is not its semantic argument, but is rather the semantic argument of an embedded predicate.



See also Category:English control verbs