If you soften something, you make it soft or softer. If you weaken something, you make it weaker. Write down the verbs from these adjectives: tight loose hard bright flat sharp sweet Note that we can also use the suffix -fly with a similar meaning: classify qualify electrify purify simplify

a. Mrs Scarlet agreed to investigate the cost of employing an outside agency to prepare publicity literature.
b. Mr Black insisted that an outside agency should be employed to prepare publicity literature.
c. It was agreed that publicity literature prepared in-house was not of a high standard.