Epistemic Single Verb: Main verb is a cognitive verb, such as think, know, wonder, dream, imagine.
There is no phase assignment for single-verb epistemic utterances included in Lahey's 1988 chart, so such utterances are designated only as "single verb" rather than assigned to a specific phase.
Utterance |
Context/Explanation |
I know that. |
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She doesn't know the answer | |
I dreamed about monsters last night. |