Category:English raising verbs

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. were
  2. acknowledge
  3. stop
  4. stand
  5. turn out
  6. continue
  7. say
  8. posit
  9. start out
  10. end up
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. begin
  2. allege
  3. stay
  4. threaten
  5. quit
  6. judge
  7. seem
  8. turn out
  9. fail
  10. guess

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