IN-, IM- prefix meaning includes which of the following?

• A. outside
• B. before
• C. in, into, on, against, over
• D. within

Answer: (C)

The meaning of IN- (and its variant IM-) covers several directional ideas about how something relates to another thing: it can mean moving into or being inside, it can mean being on or onto a surface, it can indicate against or upon, and in some contexts it carries a sense of over or across. Because these are the familiar senses you’ll see with this prefix, the option that lists in, into, on, against, and over best matches how IN- and IM- function across many roots. The other options describe spatial or temporal ideas that aren’t typical senses of this prefix (for example, outside, within, or before), so they don’t align with how IN- and IM- convey relation or direction.