TAILIEUCHUNG - The complete idiot guide part 33

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the complete idiot guide part 33', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 23 Diction Find the Right Word Not Its First Cousin 303 Ten Distinctions Worth Making or at Least Worth Being Able to Make 1. Affect and effect Swear to get this one down and I promise to spare you lie and lay. I lie but no matter. Most of the time affect is the verb implying influence. For example A nice big chunk of imported Swiss chocolate can affect your mood. Effect is the equivalent noun Chocolate has had an effect on my mood. But life in Grammarland is not that simple. Sometimes effect can be a verb. Here s where the situation gets so ugly it can run a bulldog off a meat wagon. When used as a verb effect means impact and purpose I must effect my plan to stop eating so much chocolate By not eating so much chocolate I have succeeded in effecting my plan. Of course not eating chocolate may also have affected your plan may have contributed to it but here you re claiming that stopping eating chocolate was what really turned things around. 2. Anxious and eager Here s one of the famous language bulwarks You re not anxious to spend an evening with old friends you re eager to spend it. Unless of course you ve been sleeping with one of them for the past six months. Then you probably are anxious. Danger Will Robinson There s also the so-called affect watch that noun in psychology all that emotional stuff about a particular state. But don t let it affect you too much. 3. Assure ensure insure Assure is a verb meaning to reassure or to convince. It s generally followed by a direct object that names a person. For example The doctor assured her patient that the rash looked worse than it was. Ensure and insure both mean to make sure certain or safe. Insure is generally used to refer to a financial certainty. Check out this example Luis hoped his college degree would ensure him a job preferably one that would insure him in case of illness. 4. Authentic and genuine Something that s genuine is the real thing something that s authentic tells the truth about its subject.

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