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Choosing affect or effect

effective effective the first one was these naughty behavior affected me deeply to the verb begins with an A and then here we had the now it had a profound effect on me so why i...

Course: Grammar without the guessworkSection: Common grammar mistakesSubtitles: en

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effectively

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effective effective the first one was

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these naughty behavior affected me

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deeply to the verb begins with an A and

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then here we had the now it had a

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profound effect on me so why is he so

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confusing for native speakers why can't

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they remember how to spell the verb and

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how to spell the noun is because the

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majority of people pronounce them

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exactly the same so if we look at three

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different articulations of the word

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affect then now we have effect affect

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and effect and the most common of the

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three is the middle one effect and guess

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what it's exactly the same as the

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articulation for this one effect so

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native speaker thinks to themselves why

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should I spell it any differently if

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we're articulating and pronouncing it in

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exactly the same way is confusing and

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that's why we make this mistake there's

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a lot of shops in Covent Garden there's

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a lot of shops in Covent Garden so

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looking at it and that's nice that's a

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capital that's a capital

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there are oh yeah there are a lot of

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shops there is yeah there's a lot a lot

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yeah a lot as two words of shops in

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Baden I think that's a perfect sentence

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