| Political Symmetric | a- | Apolitical Asymmetric | | --- | --- | --- | | Confort Agree | dis- | Discomfort Disagree | | Legal Perfect Organic Regular | il- im- in- ir- | Illegal Imperfect Inorganic Irregular | | Understand Spell | mis- | Misunderstand Misspell | | Essential Sense | non- | Nonessential Nonsense | | Predictable Certain | un- | Unpredictable Uncertain |

These prefixes help you negate actions without using a negative particle.

Time to practice!

Correct or incorrect?

1. I need to unpack tonight. Correct
2. Are you disane? I won’t do that. Incorrect, insane.
3. That’s very unprobable. Incorrect, improbable.
4. This is totally inmoral. Incorrect, immoral
5. You can disregard my email. Correct

Activity

Make some examples using negation with prefixes

• My mother prefers to be apolitical.
• I can see from here that that building is asymmetric.
• I can tolerate discomfort, it helps me to step out of my confort zone.
• I can’t disagree more with you.
• It’s illegal to hit animals.
• Sometimes, you can find perfection in which is imperfect.
• Inorganic garbage goes in this container.
• You have irregular papers, you can’t go in.
• You totally misunderstood me yesterday.
• Sorry, I have just misspelled the word.
• Nonessential activities were prohibited during the pandemic.
• Killing each other has nonsense.
• Their movements are terrifyingly unpredictable.
• Our future will be uncertain if we don’t stop to pollute.