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ACT Aspire English: "Affect" vs. "Effect" 4 Views


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what affect


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All right as firing literary people Here we go Another

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section were on one of twelve And we're just going

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to inspect the whole bunch of paragraphs sentences and whatever's

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teo figure out right Grammar and all that kind of

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stuff So here we go first One what Affect All

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

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i was seven years old my parents got divorced and

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my mom decided to take me to panama to live

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with her there Not shakespearean writing here at the time

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I was too young to realize what affect this would

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have on my life Now i know that it shaped

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my childhood and made me the person i am today

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Look terrible writing divorce clearly hurt their grammar Okay well

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

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versus effect Like an old timey villain you know rolls

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into town and high noon with a gun This issue

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surfaces every once in a while just to make sure

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we still recognize the difference Well the two words air

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

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made an affect and in effect there so you could

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

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

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swamped here so we can eliminate each of the answer

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choices that mistakenly use affect like a indeed the second

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answer choice uses effect but that creates the awkward phrasing

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of at the time I was too young to realise

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that e fact this would have on my life So

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

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like i was too young to realize the e fact

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

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

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