'V that' - Construction 8

Name: the add that construction
Description: A person places an utterance in relation to another one.
Verbs: add, answer, interject, rejoin, reply, respond, retort
Example: [He] added that the time had come for actions to match rhetoric. (BNC)
Membership: communication; information
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Communication. Roles: NP1: Sayer; that-cause: Message
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