7.10 verbs of learning and perceiving

A third group of reporting verbs refer to learning and perceiving facts.

• I have since learned that the writer of the letter is now dead.
• Then she saw that he was sleeping.

Here is a list of reporting verbs which refer to learning and perceiving facts:

• conclude, discover, elicit, find, gather, hear, infer, learn, note, notice, observe, perceive, read, realize, see, sense

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Some of the verbs in the above lists, such as 'tell' and 'promise', must be or can be followed by an object indicating who the hearer is. See paragraphs 7.71 to 7.72.

Note that some verbs appear in more than one list, because they have more than one meaning.