Category:English raising verbs

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. end up
  2. keep on
  3. wind up
  4. start out
  5. used to
  6. were
  7. acknowledge
  8. stop
  9. stand
  10. turn out


Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. start out
  2. begin
  3. were
  4. grow
  5. keep
  6. become
  7. allege
  8. stay
  9. strike
  10. threaten


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