'V n to-inf' - Construction 3
| Name: | the believe something to be the case construction |
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| Description: | A person has a level of confidence in a situation being true. |
| Verbs: | acknowledge, adjudge, assume, believe, consider, deem, discover, feel, judge, know, presume, prove, reckon, be seen, take, think, understand |
| Example: | …politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world. (BNC) |
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Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Cognizer; NP2 + to-inf clause: Phenomenon.
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