[Video] Q2: No change or affect on or effect to or affects on

Explanation for Question 2 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Question two reads in truth. 2 The agency has a widespread positive effect on society by serving as a catalyst 3 for innovation and scientific understanding. 4 And then the rest of the sentence goes on to the next page, 5 but the rest is not important for number two, 6 for number two, we are only focused on this phrase right here. 7 So to determine which one is correct, 8 you'll see that all of the answers have some form of the word effect 9 in there, whether it's a fact with an a, 10 or effect with an E. So let's establish that distinction effect 11 with an E. 12 That is a noun. For example, 13 you might've heard the phrase special effects before that special effects is with an 14 E right? That's a thing. 15 Now, when we see the word a affect with an a, 16 that is being used as a verb, 17 for example, how did my actions affect you? 18 And the way that I learned to remember this is that this a, 19 you can say that stands for action, right? 20 Because verbs are action words. So let's see in 21 this sentence is effect being used as a noun or verb. 22 It says that the agency has a widespread, 23 positive effect on society. Okay? 24 So from that, we can see that it's a thing, 25 right? The positive effect. 26 That's a thing, that's not an action. So it is going to be effect. 27 So it can't be B or D and now it's just whether it's 28 effect on or effect too. And you just kind of have to be 29 familiar with the English language, idioms, 30 common phrasing, and you would know that effect on is 31 the phrase that we use. We never really say affect too. 32 So that's why it's going to be a no change for this one.