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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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- 00:03
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
- 00:13
we gotta change this one But first we're going to
- 00:15
do the reading of the ceremonial paragraph here down here
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- 00:19
and i got all the wrangling but a lot of
- 00:20
their sentence the thermal conductivity the nature of how effectively
- 00:22
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
- 00:33
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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