'V that' - Construction 14
| Name: | the accept that construction |
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| Description: | A person thinks the same or different to someone else. When the subject is plural, this indicates that two people agree or disagree with each other. |
| Verbs: | accept, acknowledge, agree, concur, disagree |
| Example: | Intellectually he had accepted that the marriage had been a mistake… (BNC) |
| Membership: | cognition |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Cognizer; that-clause: Phenomenon
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