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English verbs taking clausal complements, from the Penn Tree Bank

---+++ Tell
| say | state | add | suggest | report | announce | call | reply | write | assert | advise | respond | explain | tell |


---+++ Show
| show | indicate | illustrate | demonstrate | prove | reveal | imply |


---+++ Think
| believe | think | know | doubt | recall | remember | suspect |


---+++ Observe
| observe | note | see | hear |


---+++ Discover
| find | conclude | decide | determine | discover | learn | rule | confirm | realize | reason | calculate | understand | recognize |


---+++ Speculate
| estimate | warn | predict | imagine | propose | speculate | bet |


---+++ Opine
| argue | contend | agree | insist | claim | concede | acknowledge | allege | maintain | deny | admit |


---+++ Feel
| worry | hope | expect | require | fear | feel | want | demand | intend |


---+++ Ask
| ask | wonder | request |


---+++ All, by frequency

| said | 305 |
| say | 159 |
| note | 123 |
| add | 96 |
| believe | 72 |
| argue | 70 |
| show | 70 |
| suggest | 62 |
| estimate | 52 |
| report | 51 |
| contend | 47 |
| found | 43 |
| agree | 34 |
| indicate | 34 |
| insist | 33 |
| think | 30 |
| know | 28 |
| predict | 26 |
| complain | 24 |
| conclude | 24 |
| claim | 23 |
| announce | 23 |
| concede | 23 |
| warn | 22 |
| noting | 21 |
| mean | 21 |
| acknowledge | 20 |
| see | 19 |
| call | 18 |
| worry | 18 |
| ensure | 18 |
| maintain | 17 |
| wonder | 17 |
| allege | 16 |
| added | 16 |
| decide | 16 |
| determine | 16 |
| find | 15 |
| arguing | 14 |
| learn | 14 |
| hope | 14 |
| expect | 13 |
| rule | 13 |
| confirm | 13 |
| realize | 12 |
| ask | 12 |
| fear | 12 |
| recommend | 11 |
| state | 11 |
| question | 11 |
| assume | 11 |
| caution | 10 |
| feel | 10 |
| recall | 9 |
| require | 9 |
| speculate | 9 |
| reveal | 8 |
| charged | 8 |
| assuming | 8 |
| demand | 7 |
| signal | 7 |
| disclose | 7 |
| appear | 7 |
| emphasized | 7 |
| assert | 7 |
| held | 7 |
| recognize | 7 |
| indicated | 7 |
| tell | 6 |
| forecast | 6 |
| discovered | 6 |
| ruled | 6 |
| suspect | 6 |
| responded | 5 |
| charges | 5 |
| thought | 5 |
| estimates | 5 |
| confirmed | 5 |
| adding | 5 |
| admit | 5 |
| imply | 5 |
| discover | 5 |
| declare | 5 |
| speculated | 5 |
| estimated | 5 |
| demonstrate | 5 |
| investigating | 4 |
| explained | 4 |
| urge | 4 |
| betting | 4 |
| project | 4 |
| noticed | 4 |
| explaining | 4 |
| wrote | 4 |
| worried | 4 |
| alleging | 4 |
| hear | 4 |
| disclosed | 4 |
| ensuring | 4 |
| figuring | 4 |
| proposed | 4 |
| understand | 4 |
| understood | 4 |
| declaring | 4 |
| felt | 4 |
| doubt | 4 |
| explains | 4 |
| boasts | 4 |
| hoping | 4 |
| worries | 4 |
| look | 4 |
| asserted | 3 |
| indicates | 3 |
| seems | 3 |
| hint | 3 |
| shown | 3 |
| ordered | 3 |
| requiring | 3 |
| denies | 3 |
| agreed | 3 |
| accept | 3 |
| guarantee | 3 |
| holds | 3 |
| provides | 3 |
| reported | 3 |
| stress | 3 |
| stressed | 3 |
| emphasizes | 3 |
| proclaim | 3 |
| adds | 3 |
| asserts | 3 |
| observed | 3 |
| noted | 3 |
| ruling | 3 |
| reasoned | 3 |
| calculates | 3 |
| counter | 3 |
| indicating | 3 |
| meant | 3 |
| determining | 3 |
| deciding | 2 |
| figure | 2 |
| disclosing | 2 |
| imagine | 2 |
| wait | 2 |
| predicting | 2 |
| replies | 2 |
| knew | 2 |
| pledged | 2 |
| reckon | 2 |
| means | 2 |
| requested | 2 |
| confesses | 2 |
| stipulate | 2 |
| charging | 2 |
| discovering | 2 |
| writes | 2 |
| proposing | 2 |
| alleges | 2 |
| reiterated | 2 |
| prove | 2 |
| mandated | 2 |
| warned | 2 |
| admitted | 2 |
| concedes | 2 |
| deny | 2 |
| stressing | 2 |
| recognizing | 2 |
| fret | 2 |
| concluded | 2 |
| stating | 2 |
| dictate | 2 |
| alleged | 2 |
| estimating | 2 |
| illustrates | 2 |
| bet | 2 |
| theorized | 2 |
| remains | 2 |
| replied | 2 |
| allowed | 2 |
| denied | 2 |
| help | 2 |
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