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. take
  2. stand
  3. know
  4. get
  5. strike
  6. have
  7. understand
  8. grow
  9. keep
  10. were

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