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Affect or effect? It can be so confusing but this SAT Writing video is here to help you out.


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All right Shh Shmoop uppers six of eleven here and

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this one's kind of a gimme least it's a giving

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if you know the diff between affect and effect So

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we gotta change this one But first we're going to

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do the reading of the ceremonial paragraph here down here

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and i got all the wrangling but a lot of

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their sentence the thermal conductivity the nature of how effectively

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wrong he can be transferred across a medium of water

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is approximately three times out of here Okay so this

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is not affecting something This is how effectively it can

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do something So if you know the delta or the

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difference between effective and effective well you kind of get

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a free point here The parenthetical where this word appears

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to find thermal conductivity is a measure of how he'd

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is transferred next sentence tells us waters thermal conductivity is

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thirty times more than ares What we're learning here is

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that one medium water transfers heat more successfully than the

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other air The best choice that is a synonym for

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successfully effectively got it with an e there it's easy

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to confuse affect and effect especially since the difference changes

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Slightly in their adverb eel forms there as verbs effect

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means to set in motion or to cause to happen

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while affect means to alter or change something Okay very

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important to know that you probably get asked that sometime

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in your life what way cooler you know the answer

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that so affect can also refer to emotion which is

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the case when we use it in its adverb form

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affect ihe vly last week Check eat is not terribly

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emotional though affect of lee is the wrong adverb we

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still need an adverb since it's modifying the verb transferred

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effective is an adjective so it's a of no use

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to us here on our last option takes the past

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participle affected and turns it into an adverb affected lee

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which means in a showy and pretentious manner Heat is

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not emotional and it's not showing unless we're talking about 00:01:48.381 --> [endTime] the miami heat on that's All ah

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