Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Grammar rules regarding negative prefixes

I was asked in class today about whether the negative prefix 'im' is always followed by a 'p'.  Not knowing (or remembering!) the answer off the top of my head, I decided to look it up.  Thanks to Google, I found the following (taken from: http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/learn-english/grammar/negative-prefixes/):
 
Words that take im– as a negative prefix always begin with the letter m or p.
affirmative
 
negative
mobile
immobile
moral
immoral
perfect
imperfect
possible
impossible

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