Category:English raising verbs

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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

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