Confusing words and cognates Lesson & practice

• Affect/Effect :

  Affect is usually a verb: Chester’s humming affected Posey’s ability to concentrate.

  Effect is usually a noun: Chester was sorry for the effect his humming had.

  If you find yourself stumped about which one to use in a sentence, try substituting the word “alter” or “result.”

  If “alter” fits (Chester’s humming altered Posey’s ability to concentrate), use affect.

  If “result” fits (Chester was sorry for the result his humming had), use effect.

• 1.  I offered her an apology, but she wouldn’t __________ it.

  2.  The museum is open daily __________ Mondays.

  3.  Everyone was there ___________ for Sally.

  The new telephones will ___________ coins of any denomination

Advice

An opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation.

Advise

To give someone advice.

• Cognates are words with the same meaning that are spelled and sound similar in two different languages. Some examples include:

  1.    radio – radio

  2.   hospital – hospital

  3.   gorilla – gorila

  4.   coyote – coyote

Cognates are words that share the same Latin and/or Greek root in Spanish and English, are very similar in spelling, and have the same or similar meaning.

However, we must be cautious with words that seem to be cognates but are not.

These are called false cognates

• Arena- assist- attend- carpet- concourse - crude- criteria

• Delinquency- disgrace - divert - disgust-lecture

• Espectacles -exit - fabric - faculty

• gang-gracious- globe -mayor-success-vase -sane

  
  

  
  

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