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ACT Aspire English: "Affect" vs. "Effect" 4 Views
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what affect
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- 00:03
All right as firing literary people Here we go Another
- 00:07
section were on one of twelve And we're just going
- 00:09
to inspect the whole bunch of paragraphs sentences and whatever's
- 00:12
teo figure out right Grammar and all that kind of
- 00:15
stuff So here we go first One what Affect All
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- 00:19
right that's where focused on goto paragraph one here When
- 00:22
i was seven years old my parents got divorced and
- 00:25
my mom decided to take me to panama to live
- 00:27
with her there Not shakespearean writing here at the time
- 00:31
I was too young to realize what affect this would
- 00:34
have on my life Now i know that it shaped
- 00:37
my childhood and made me the person i am today
- 00:40
Look terrible writing divorce clearly hurt their grammar Okay well
- 00:49
let's think about this It's the old problem of affect
- 00:52
versus effect Like an old timey villain you know rolls
- 00:57
into town and high noon with a gun This issue
- 00:59
surfaces every once in a while just to make sure
- 01:02
we still recognize the difference Well the two words air
- 01:06
pronounced in almost exactly the same way Even though we've
- 01:09
made an affect and in effect there so you could
- 01:12
hear the difference But they're actually different parts of speech
- 01:16
Affect is a verb Wealth effect is a noun They're
- 01:20
swamped here so we can eliminate each of the answer
- 01:23
choices that mistakenly use affect like a indeed the second
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answer choice uses effect but that creates the awkward phrasing
- 01:31
of at the time I was too young to realise
- 01:34
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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