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Opposites 1 - Prefixes
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ENGLISH OFTEN USES prefixes to create opposites. There are several different prefixes which are used. Choose the right prefixes for each of the adjectives in the box and write it into the table. The first one has been done for you: evidence which is inadmissible will not be accepted (admitted) by a court.
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Admissible – capable – competent – confirmed – correct – dependent – insured – just – lawful – legal – legitimate – moral – movable – perfect – professional – proper – reconcilable – recoverable – regular – relevant – reliable – sane – solvent – valid
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Exercise 2.
Use twelve of the adjectives in the table to complete these sentences. The first one has been done for you as an example:
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1. Hearsay evidence – evidence which a witness has heard from another source – is inadmissible in a court of law.
2. Can you check these accounts? Some of the figures seem to be____________.
3. The witness was completely ___________: she kept changing her story.
4. it is __________ for a lawyer to enter into personal relations with a client.
5. We returned the goods to the supplier because they were __________.
6. That’s very interesting, but _________ : can you please comment only on the case?
7. There are rumors of a takeover, but they are still __________.
8. It is ___________ to sell tobacco without a license.
9. He could not pay his debts and was declared __________.
10. This document is ____________ without the signature of a witness.
11. The director of the company has left the country permanently and I’m afraid the debt is now __________.
12. At twenty-one she left home and became ____________.
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Answers:
Exercise 1:
-il
1. illegal, 2. Illegitimate
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-im
1. Immoral, 2. Immovable, 3. Imperfect, 4. Improper
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-in
1. inadmissible, 2. Incapable, 3. Incompetent, 4. Incorrect, 5. Independent, 6. Insane, 7. Insolvent, 8. Invalid
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-ir
1. irreconcilable, 2. Irrecoverable, 3. Irregular, 4. Irrelevant
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-un
1. unconfirmed, 2. Uninsured, 3. Unjust, 4. Unlawful, 5. Unprofessional, 6. Unreliable
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Exercise 2:
1. Inadmissible, 2. Incorrect, 3. Unreliable, 4. Improper, 5. Imperfect, 6. Irrelevant, 7. Unconfirmed, 8. Illegal, 9. Insolvent, 10. Invalid, 11. Irrecoverable, 12. Independent