I’m not sure that it is the right place to ask new questions. These are some common effects of trauma that you might recognise. Is it about the difference in meaning, combinability or something else? It’s sheer presumption for the government to suggest things have improved since they came to power. This often is the case in psychology or psychiatry when the noun 'affect' refers to an emotional response for example, the gestures, body language, vocal tone or facial expressions that we produce as the consequence of specific emotions. 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. 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.

I have an effect on you