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