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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.3 - Vocabulary and skills development for the textbook Navigate Pre-Intermediate B1 - Coursebook with authors Caroline Krantz and Julie Norton from Oxford University Press

Question

Look at these extracts from the listening. How do the prefixes im- and un- change the meaning of the adjectives which follow them?

  • I don't want to be impolite ...
  • That's a bit unnecessary ... and a bit unfriendly!

Answer

im- and un- mean ‘not’. It changes the adjective to mean the opposite.

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