English Legal & Crime Vocabulary with Grammar Rules

English Vocabulary for Legal & Crime Contexts

Adjectives

• Guilty (Culpable)
• Innocent

Nouns

• Court (Juzgado)
• Crime
• Criminal
• Detective
• Evidence (Pruebas)
• Judge (Juez)
• Jury (Jurado)
• Justice (Justicia)
• Law (Derecho)
• Lawyer
• Prison
• Punishment (Castigo)
• Sentence
• Suspect
• Victim
• Witness

Verbs

• Arrest (Detener)
• Commit (Cometer)
• Investigate
• Prove (Demostrar)

Compound Nouns

• Bus stop
• Care home (Residencia)
• Community service (Servicio comunitario)
• Crime scene
• Defence lawyer (Abogado defensor)
• Detective series (Serie de detectives)
• Exam results (Resultado de examen)
• Football team
• Keyboard (Teclado)
• Notebook
• Police car
• Policeman
• School building
• Summer holiday
• Traffic light (Semáforo)

Prepositions with Nouns

• Against the law (En contra de la ley)
• Against the odds (A pesar de los pronósticos)
• At all times
• At risk (En peligro)
• By accident (Por casualidad)
• By yourself (Sin ayuda de nadie)
• For a living (Para ganarse la vida)
• For certain (Con seguridad)
• In debt (En deuda)
• In front (Delante)
• On purpose (A propósito)
• On your own (Estar solo)
• Under arrest (Estar detenido)
• Under the circumstances
• Without doubt (Sin duda)
• Without exception (Sin excepción)

Crimes and Criminals

• Burglar (Ladrón de casas)
• Burglary (Robo de una casa)
• Burgle (Robar una casa)
• Kidnap (Secuestrar)
• Kidnapper (Secuestrador)
• Kidnapping (Secuestro)
• Mug (Atracar)
• Mugger (Atracador)
• Mugging (Atraco)
• Murder (Noun: Asesinato)
• Murder (Verb: Asesinar)
• Murderer (Asesino)
• Rob (Robar)
• Robber (Ladrón)
• Robbery (Robo)
• Shoplift (Robar tienda)
• Shoplifter (Ladrón de tiendas)
• Shoplifting (Robar en una tienda)
• Steal (Robar)
• Theft (Robo)
• Thief (Ladrón)
• Vandal (Vándalo)
• Vandalism (Vandalismo)
• Vandalize (Destrozar)

Reported Speech Transformations

• Present Simple → Past Simple
• Past Simple → Past Simple or Past Perfect
• Present Perfect → Past Perfect
• Past Perfect → Past Perfect (No change)
• Future (Will) → Conditional (Would)

Modal Verb Transformations

• Can → Could
• May → Might
• Will → Would
• Shall → Should

Common Time & Place Adverb Changes

• Now → Then
• Here → There
• This → That
• These → Those
• Today → That day
• Tomorrow → The following day
• Yesterday → The previous day
• Next month → The following month
• Last month → The month before