Verbs (25) - Verbs followed by that clause

That Clause

ေအာက္ပါ verbs မ်ားေနာက္တြင္ that clause လုိက္ေပးတယ္။

Verbs of thinking

Think, believe, expect, decide, hope, know, understand, suppose, guess, imagine, feel, remember, forget

I hope that you will enjoy your holiday.

She didn’t really think that it would happen.

I knew that I had seen her somewhere before.

Verbs of saying

Say, admit, argue, reply, agree, claim, deny, mention, answer, complain, explain, promise, suggest

They admitted that they had made a mistake.

She argued that they should invest more in the business.

The children complained that they had nothing to do.

Note: tell and some other verbs of saying must always have a direct objective.

Tell, convince, persuade, inform, remind

We tried to tell them that they should stop what they were doing.

The police informed everybody that the danger was over.

That ကို ေအာက္ပါ Thinking, saying နဲ႔ဆုိင္တဲ့ nouns ေတြကုိ ေနာက္ကအထူးျပဳဖို႔ postmodifiers အေနနဲ႔လဲ သံုးတယ္။

Advice, belief, claim, feeling, argument, hope, promise, report, guess, opinion, idea

He made a promise that he would do all he could to help.

I had a funny feeling that something was wrong.

အခ်ိဳ႕ nouns ေတြေနာက္မွာ nouns ေတြကို ထပ္ဆင့္ရွင္းျပဖုိ႔ သံုးတယ္။

Fact, advantage, effect, possibility, chance, danger, evidence, problem, difficulty

She pointed out the danger that they might be left behind.

There was a chance that we would succeed.

မၾကာခဏ Nouns ေတြကုိ အဓိပၸါယ္ဖြင့္ျပဖို႔ သတ္မွတ္ျပဖို႔ verb to be ေနာက္က that clause ကုိသံုးတယ္။

Danger, problem, chance, possibility, fact

The danger is that we will be left behind.

The fact is that it is getting very late.

Feelings ေတြကုိ အေၾကာင္းျပဖို႔ feelings ကုိေဖာ္ျပတဲ့ adjectives ေတြရဲ႕ေနာက္မွာလဲ that clause ကုိသံုးတယ္။ (to give a reason for our feelings)

Pleased, sorry, happy, unhappy, sad, excited, glad, disappointed, afraid

I’m sorry that you can’t come.

Everybody was pleased that the danger was past.

It is lucky that you were able to drive us home.

မွတ္ခ်က္။ ။ ေအာက္ပါ clause မ်ိဳးေတြကုိ that မပါဘဲ အၿမဲသံုးႏုိင္တယ္။

They admitted [that] they had made a mistake.

The police informed everybody [that] the danger was over.

I’m sorry [that] you can’t come.

There was a chance [that] we would succeed.