'V wh' - Construction 6
| Name: | the know what is the case construction |
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| Description: | A person has a level of positive certainty about a situation. |
| Verbs: | accept, acknowledge, agree, know, remember, see, think, understand |
| Example: | Now I knew why there so many badly-written books… (BNC) |
| Membership: | Cognition; actual situation |
| Semantic fields and roles: |
Field: Cognition.
Roles: NP1: Cognizer; wh-clause: Phenomenon
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