Raising
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This article is about the grammatical construction. For the metalworking technique, see Raising (metalwork).
In Transformational Grammar and other derived grammatical frameworks, raising is the name given to a construction in which a linguistic element that belongs semantically to a subordinate clause is found as a constituent of a higher clause. For example, in Jack seems to be very popular, the noun phrase Jack is semantically the subject of the predicate be very popular, but syntactically it is the subject of seem.
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