Adjective complement with noun phrase

• say: So the first question is what is his real motive for saying something so untrue?

Modifies a noun

• allegation: Rooney was also awarded damages of £ 450,000 from News International for similar untrue allegations.

• statement: Police charged him with making an untrue statement in order to obtain a passport.

• story: We do not have to go on believing untrue stories, " Bauer said.

• claim: Well, at least he quietly dropped his demonstrably untrue prior claim that tolls are a useful anti-congestion measure.

• story: Can an untrue story tell the truth about human nature or how we should behave?

• information: He later admitted that he had provided untrue information to the Inland Revenue.

Modifying Another Word

• demonstrably: This is demonstrably untrue in the majority of cases.

• manifestly: Donât let the fact that this is manifestly untrue shake your resolve.

• blatantly: Of course the information was blatantly untrue: - We had received no mails!

• plainly: This grotesque and obscene version of events is plainly untrue.

• totally: It is totally untrue that wage checks have not always been honored.

Infinitive complement

• say: It is quite untrue to say that there is nothing outside the Orthodox Church.

• suggest: But Mick Cull ( Sheffield ) said it was untrue to suggest otherwise -- branches got all the help they needed.

• claim: It is quite untrue to claim that there has been any kind of a crackdown.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: However, their claim to reach the Windmill proved untrue.

• become: It is also an expression that is rapidly becoming untrue for two reasons.

• ring: If it rings untrue in any aspect, then it feels as tho the reality is being twisted simply to serve the comedy.

Preposition: of

• course: Completely untrue of course but how do we persuade them otherwise?