Category:English raising verbs

Newest and oldest pages 
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. know
  2. take
  3. think
  4. remember
  5. begin
  6. feel
  7. get
  8. have
  9. grow
  10. keep

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