![]() I’m not sure that it is the right place to ask new questions. ![]() While ‘effect’ is the resulting product of affect meaning ‘when you affect something, you get the effect’. It is also a verb that means 'to make happen. Effect : Effect is a noun that means an outcome or result. As a noun, it has a definition specific to the field of psychology (a subjective emotion demonstrated through someones actions). Is it about the difference in meaning, combinability or something else? Affect is something that you do meaning something that is an action. Affect : Affect is a verb that means to influence something or, in relation to human behavior, to put on an act. For example, improve is a verb but not a noun. You can tell by substituting other words. ![]() It’s sheer presumption for the government to suggest things have improved since they came to power. The difference is that affect is a verb and effect is a noun. They raised taxes on the assumption that it would help control spending.Ģ. Could you please explain it? These are two sentences I have in my IELTS book:ġ. I have checked the English monolingual dictionaries and honestly failed to find the difference. The IELTS Vocabulary books often place them in the FCW section. My question is about two other FCW(frequently confused words): presumption and assumption. Is someone affected or effected Affected can be used as a past tense verb that means influenced or changed. Students do often make mistakes using ‘effect’ and ‘affect’ interchangeably as they often do not realise that these words belong to two different parts of speech. Thank you for the lesson on this pair of frequently confused words.
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