Explanation for Question 42 From the Writing Section on the 2017 May Sat
Question, um, 42 corresponds to this underlying section right here. 2 Um, it says affects by, 3 or sorry, the effects of, and we want to determine whether that's correct 4 or we should switch it to affects from effects of or effects by. 5 So we first want to determine what the difference is between affects with an 6 a and effects with an E they're very similar and they're easy to confuse 7 the main differences that affects with an a is a verb. 8 Usually an effects is a noun, 9 so affects. You can use in a sentence, 10 something like, um, I am affected 11 by and then effects is the effect. 12 Something left on something. So the sentence reads above 13 ground power lines are often struck by lightening causing power outages, 14 but the affects or affects of lightening on bird power lines 15 were not investigated. So we're talking about, 16 um, a noun here. There's something left off by the lightening on varied 17 power lines. 18 So we want to use the non, which is the E. 19 So it's, we're going to know, we know that it's going to be effects. 20 We have to determine if it's by or have you have those two 21 options. We can cross out a and 22 B cause those have affects the verb, 23 but we have affects over effects by this is one of 24 those English language conventions questions. 25 There's not really a reason why we have the preposition buyer of here. 26 It shows the word that belongs with effects. 27 Um, the word that we just put in English language, 28 that's how we speak. So we read, 29 um, above ground power lines are often struck by lightening causing power outages, 30 but the effects of lightning or effects by lightning they'll crop. 31 The proper word there is. It's just the correct phrase that we have when 32 we have effects of something or something, 33 um, effects of in this case, 34 lightning on varied power lines. So our proper response would 35 be C effect of.