Graham English

Presuppositional Forms: Factive Verbs and Adjectives - Today, when someone presents a simple outcome or limitation (using few enough words that it can be presupposed in a longer sentence. Ex. “being confident” or “making more money”), use the following presuppositional form to presuppose the outcome or to change the limitation into a resource.

Factive Verbs and Adjectives: odd, aware, know, realize, regret, etc.

“Are you aware of your ability to make more money?”

“Are you pleased that you can be confident?”

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Tags: Language, NLP, NLP Language Patterns

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