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hi my name is Rebecca and in today's

lesson we are going to clarify the

difference between two commonly confused

words and those two words are effect and

effect

okay I'll pronounce them for you once

again effect and effect

now what are the difference­s between

these let's look the first word effect

is a verb

the second word effect is a noun

alright that's the first difference so

the word effect as a verb refers to when

you change someone or something

the second word effect the noun refers

to a change that happens because

something else happened alright I know

that sounds a little bit confusing let's

look at some examples and I hope you'll

understand a little bit better so when

we're talking about changes we could be

talking about all kinds of changes right

so we could be referring to a physical

change a mental change psychologi­cal or

any other kind let me give you an

example smoking affected the condition

of his lungs smoking affected the

condition of his lungs right I used the

verb effect in the past tense affected

we could use the same example and use

the now right smoking had a negative

effect on his lungs smoking had a

negative effect on his lungs sometimes

when we want to say negative we could

have also used the vocabulary word

adverse smoking had an adverse effect on

his lungs okay let's take another

example mental where something is

affected mentally right stay up all

night

perfected his concentrat­ion right

staying up all night affected his

concentrat­ion if we change it we could

say staying up all night effect had a

strong sorry I'll start again staying up

all night had a strong effect on his

concentrat­ion now we used the noun

instead of the verb if we give an

example of a psychologi­cal nature we

could say losing her grandmothe­r at an

early age affected the young child

losing her grandmothe­r affected the

young child we used the verb correct or

we could say the loss of her grandmothe­r

had a negative effect on the young child

now we used the now okay so as you can

see they are also spelt differentl­y

right a and E the verb effect is spelt

with a the noun effect is about with an

E alright so two little words but one

more way in which you can improve your

English once you understand the

difference between the two so thanks

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