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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.3 - Welcome to perfect city for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the words connected to city life. Which do you know? Work with other students to complete sentences 1-4.
  2. Which three words in the box contain suffixes that turn them into nouns? What are the nouns' root words?

Answer

a)

  1. amenities
  2. infrastructure
  3. abandonment; regeneration
  4. congestion; tolls

b)

  • congestion comes from congest
  • abandonment comes from abandon
  • regeneration comes from generate