ACT Aspire English: "Affect" vs. "Effect"

right that's where focused on goto paragraph one here When

i was seven years old my parents got divorced and

my mom decided to take me to panama to live

with her there Not shakespearean writing here at the time

I was too young to realize what affect this would

have on my life Now i know that it shaped

my childhood and made me the person i am today

Look terrible writing divorce clearly hurt their grammar Okay well

let's think about this It's the old problem of affect

versus effect Like an old timey villain you know rolls

into town and high noon with a gun This issue

surfaces every once in a while just to make sure

we still recognize the difference Well the two words air

pronounced in almost exactly the same way Even though we've

made an affect and in effect there so you could

hear the difference But they're actually different parts of speech

Affect is a verb Wealth effect is a noun They're

swamped here so we can eliminate each of the answer

choices that mistakenly use affect like a indeed the second

answer choice uses effect but that creates the awkward phrasing

of at the time I was too young to realise

that e fact this would have on my life So

that's incorrect as well Right Answer is c that effect

like i was too young to realize the e fact

this would have on my life Yeah Yeah well let's

hope we affect your grammar better than we did for 00:01:51.311 --> [endTime] this guy