VocabularyB — Intermediate

Antonym Prefixes

Im-, Il-, Ir- — Variants of In-

"Im-" is used before words starting with b, m, or p: impossible, imbalance, impatient, immature, imperfect. "Il-" is used before words starting with l: illegal, illogical, illiterate, illegible. "Ir-" is used before words starting with r: irrelevant, irregular, irresponsible, irrational, irreversible. The consonant doubling (im+m, il+l, ir+r) gives a clue to the correct prefix.

Im-, Il-, Ir- — Variants of In-

"Im-" is used before words starting with b, m, or p: impossible, imbalance, impatient, immature, imperfect. "Il-" is used before words starting with l: illegal, illogical, illiterate, illegible. "Ir-" is used before words starting with r: irrelevant, irregular, irresponsible, irrational, irreversible. The consonant doubling (im+m, il+l, ir+r) gives a clue to the correct prefix.

Practice

Parking here is ___.

Changing the past is completely.

Put the words in the correct order:

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