I don’t + think | believe + CLAUSE – English Grammar Profiler

Point 14 in the category of NEGATION:

negative forms of mental process verbs (‘I don’t think’, ‘I don’t believe’) followed by a complement clause, where the negative form is in the mental process verb rather than the complement clause

An iWeb search for:

_P _VD _X think|believe that_C

1 I DO N’T THINK THAT 20060

TLC SPEAKING TEST EXAMPLE:

I don’t think that food here is expensive.

female Mexico B1

2 I DO N’T BELIEVE THAT 5674 3 I DO NOT THINK THAT 5519 4 I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT 5404 5 WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT 1728 6 I DID N’T THINK THAT 1528 7 YOU DO N’T THINK THAT 849 8 WE DO N’T BELIEVE THAT 639 9 WE DO N’T THINK THAT 594 10 I DID NOT THINK THAT 524 11 WE DO NOT THINK THAT 496 12 HE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT 487 13 YOU DO N’T BELIEVE THAT 469 14 THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THAT 397 15 HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT 331 16 HE DID NOT THINK THAT 313 17 THEY DO N’T BELIEVE THAT 268 18 I DID NOT BELIEVE THAT 246 19 YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT 243 20 THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THAT 243 21 I DID N’T BELIEVE THAT 240 22 HE DOES N’T BELIEVE THAT 240 23 THEY DO N’T THINK THAT 213 24 YOU DO NOT THINK THAT 192 25 HE DID N’T THINK THAT 188 26 HE DOES N’T THINK THAT 178 27 WE DID N’T THINK THAT 167 28 WHO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT 164 29 THEY DID NOT THINK THAT 144 30 HE DOES NOT THINK THAT 130 31 THEY DO NOT THINK THAT 124 32 HE DID N’T BELIEVE THAT 117 33 THEY DID N’T THINK THAT 103 34 WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT 100 35 SHE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT 100 36 THEY DID N’T BELIEVE THAT 96 37 WHO DO N’T BELIEVE THAT 94 38 SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT 93 39 YOU DID N’T THINK THAT 92 40 SHE DOES N’T THINK THAT 90 41 WE DID NOT THINK THAT 86 42 WHO DID NOT BELIEVE THAT 80 43 SHE DID N’T THINK THAT 80 44 SHE DOES N’T BELIEVE THAT 77 45 SHE DID NOT THINK THAT 64 46 WHO DO N’T THINK THAT 61 47 WHO DOES N’T BELIEVE THAT 57 48 WHO DOES N’T THINK THAT 47 49 IT DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT 45

50 WE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT 44