Wild dog rose.
affect v effect
compliment
v complement
moral v morale v mortal
personal v personnel
principle
v principal
compliment
v complement
Today you're going to master
words that even native speakers confuse!
You'll learn common words
that you can use in academic and business situations.
Whether in conversation or in
writing, if you use these words correctly, you'll sound smart.
But if you use the wrong
word, you won't sound so smart. So join me and learn these words,
as well as how to use them
properly. We'll look at the following sets of words: affect & effect,
principle & principal, compliment & complement, moral & morale
& mortal, personal & personnel, censor & sensor & censure.
TRANSCRIPT
TRANSCRIPT
Hi. Welcome back to
www.engvid.com. I'm Adam, and today's lesson: "Commonly Confused
Words" is very important for those of you trying to learn vocabulary,
but especially for those of
you who need to write better. It's very important to write the correct word
that you mean, and sometimes, the only difference between words is one letter,
and this one letter makes a
huge difference. Okay?
So we're going to look at six
sets of commonly confused words.
Now, we're going to start with "affect" and "effect", and the difference being the "a" or the "e". Now, this is one of those pair of words that all teachers in every ESL school,
Now, we're going to start with "affect" and "effect", and the difference being the "a" or the "e". Now, this is one of those pair of words that all teachers in every ESL school,
in every ESL class always
teach students, but they don't necessarily teach it completely,
so that's what we're going to
look at today.
"Affect", verb, in
any situation you're looking at it, but it basically has two different
meanings.
One is to have an influence
or to influence something, someone. It basically means to have some sort of
power over something to make some sort of change.
The noun, they go together,
if something affects someone or something,
then the result of that is
the effect.
Now, I'm stressing the
"e" here just so you hear it, but in reality, in spoken and natural
spoken English: "affect", "effect", "affect",
"effect". It sounds almost the same,
so you have to be very
careful. You especially have to think about the context. Okay?
Context is very important
in... With all these words, to know which one is being used,
because the situation that
you hear or read the word in will tell you which meaning it is.
So the context is everything
that is around the word. So "affect", to influence something;
"effect" is the
result or what that influence has done to something or someone.
"To affect" also means to move someone emotionally.
"To affect" also means to move someone emotionally.
So if you affect someone, it
means you have an emotional...
You create an emotional
reaction in them. Okay?
You can affect them to the
point of tears, means you're making them sad,
you're making them so happy
that they're crying.
Now, here's the surprising one that many people don't realize: "effect" can also be a verb.
Now, here's the surprising one that many people don't realize: "effect" can also be a verb.
So most ESL teachers will
tell you "affect" is a verb, "effect" is a noun, that's it.
But "effect" can
also be a verb, it means to bring about. Okay?
I'm actually going to write
this down for you. Now, we especially talk about change.
So, for example, a new
manager comes into a department and he wants to effect a change,
a corporate culture change.
He wants to bring about or to cause a change.
Now, this is a little bit of
a formal word, it's a big of a high-end word. If you're writing the IELTS,
or TOEFL, or SAT, this is a
very good word to use as a verb, but make sure that you know
how to use it correctly
before you try. Cause, bring about. So, that's these ones.
Next, we have "principle" and "principal". They sound the same, but obviously, different endings. This "principle" is basically a fundamental truth. Something... Like, for example, if you're talking about a scientific principle, this is the truth, and from this truth, we can make other truths
Next, we have "principle" and "principal". They sound the same, but obviously, different endings. This "principle" is basically a fundamental truth. Something... Like, for example, if you're talking about a scientific principle, this is the truth, and from this truth, we can make other truths
or we can have other investigations
into other areas. It's a fundamental truth.
Now, when a person says that
he or she has principles, and something goes against their principles, that
means that they have a very, very strong belief, and they have a very strong
way of doing something or looking at things, and other people can't change
that. Okay? So that is a principle.
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