Legal Terminology and Grammar Exercises

EXAMEN 2

1

1. NO. Either the defendant is found guilty or not guilty
2. It is responsible for explaining the crime that was committed and how the defendant perpetrated that crime with the help of evidence.
3. that the jury has serious issues when trying to find the accused guilty
4. no, in some places only a majority vote is necessary to give a verdict

2

• Site: location
• Charges: accusations
• Offer: give
• Fundamental: very important
• Defendant: accused
• Demand: ask for something
• Parties: groups
• Required: needed

3

• Administrate - administration/administrator - administrative - administratively
• Criminalize - crime/criminal - criminal - criminally
• Object - objection - objective - objectively
• Argue - argument - arguable - arguably
• Testify - testification - testified/testifying
• Interest - interest - interesting/interested - interestingly
• Law/lawyer - lawful/legal - lawfully
• Depend - dependent - dependable - dependently
• Physic/physical - physical - physically
• Gray - grey/greyish
• Rap - rap/rapper - rapping/rapped
• Function - function - functionable - functionally
• Evidence - evidence - evident - evidently

4

• That prosecutor has been processing accused of smuggling for 10 years. Also, his penalties used to be hard.
• Even though that gang has robbed a jewelry, the inspectors were interrogating them as bribing respects.
• The defendant could have mugged a wrong person. However, the juror's verdict was guilty.
• This is a legal matter, so you must fulfill it
• There were so many dishes, knives, forks, and spoons on the floor that I think that my grandparents' kittens must have been playing for hours.
• The burglars of the chalet could have entered at night as there always used to be people at home during the rest of the day.

5

1. For ten years Chuck hadn't been doing exercise
2. Paul should have done what I told her to do
3. Such long was his shopping list that his shopping took him more than an hour?
4. I know a sect whose followers shall not stand up in front of their leader?
5. My clever brother should have completed his high secondary studies if it weren't for his laziness.
6. since I saw Jackie's mother two weeks ago she is very happy.
7. So Charles's school penalty is next week again, that means his teachers are very upset with him.
8. Peter couldn't find the clothes he wished
9. Messi should practice more his shots since he failed one that wasn't difficult at all.
10. When we arrived our room was untidy and the drawers opened up, some burglars must have entered our home

6

1. You shouldn't have rushed your choice of university studies
2. I should have put more effort into my math lessons.
3. I needn't do homework today because I finished them last week
4. He must have been in too much pain as he was crying a lot.

7

1. You shouldn't have rushed your choice of university studies
2. I should have put more effort into my maths lessons.
3. I needn't do homework today because I finished them last week.
4. He must have been in too much pain as he was crying a lot.

8

• Is William going to walk his dog?
• William isn't walking his dog
• William had been walking his dog
• Did William walk his dog?
• William needn't to walk his dog
• William can't walk his dog
• Would William have walked his dog?
• William is about to walk his dog
• William must have been walking his dog
• Excuse me William, do you mind if I ask if you could walk your dog, sir?