Object

• defeat: Arthur Green, chairman of the protection group, accuses the authority of being too quick to admit defeat.

• liability: She is now hoping they will admit full liability for what has happened to her.

• offense: You can admit the offense ( plead ' guilty ' ).

Modifying Another Word

• freely: But when asked, I will freely admit that I know very little about life.

• openly: Well, yes, and they openly admit it.

• frankly: Communists frankly admit that climate change cannot be halted.

• grudgingly: Which, I must grudgingly admit, sounds like much more fun than your average wedding.

• publicly: And finally they had to admit publicly that the strange thing about me was the lack of any despair.

Used with why or when

• that: It's been three weeks since Chris admitted he loves me, and I must admit that took me by surprise.

• when: It is part of becoming a professional to admit when you cannot perform a certain role.

Adjective complement

• free: His apprentice John Harris was admitted free during his mayoral year.

Infinitive complement

• bail: Cadogan, alias Beho, was also taken up, and admitted to bail by Just.

Preposition: in

• April: Million shares and admitted in april it easy to.