Confusing Words – affect & effect, compliment & complement, and more!

Thanks Tatasoph. Actually, those are both compliments, unless the tattoo complements the shirt ;)

Thanks Mr. Alex :)

Hi Henry,

I was hoping Real Madrid had won the match.– I heard about it later (that they lost), but before I heard, I was hoping for…

I hoped Real Madrid had won the match.– same scenario as above, so the simple past doesn’t work

I had hoped Real Madrid would win the match.– before reality there is the hypothetical

I had hoped Real Madrid had won the match.– don’t need 2 past perfects because there is no timeline.

I’ll make a video about this, but it’s not related to hope, it’s more about the past verbs.

I have a few already Dmytro, but a few more are coming ;)

I’ll see what I can do Alcatraz :)

Hi Ahmad,

Left is the past tense of leave (is this what you had in mind?)

Due to talks about the cause, while because talks about the reason. They are quite often used interchangeably, but to be correct, figure out if something is causing something else or it is the reason for it.

e.g: We didn’t go on a picnic due to the storm. (the storm caused us not to go).

We didn’t go on a picnic because the rain had made the grass wet (that was the reason we decided not to go (the rain didn’t cause us to do anything, we could have still gone)

Does this help?

Hi Fahdbensalman,

these are quantifiers. They add a degree to the adjective (rather untidy means more than a little, or very untidy)

I’m pretty tired means I’m very tired. They basically make the adjective more.

Does this help?

I’ll get on that Nermin :)

ed- describes the feeling someone has.
-ing described who or what is causing that feeling.

I am bored (I feel like going to sleep)
I am boring (I make you feel like going to sleep)

Hope this helps.

I wish I could Adil, but I’m not familiar with these. You can probably try Googling them.

Hi Bula,

Firstly, recall can be a noun and remember cannot.

If you recall something,it’s usually to remember so as to tell others. Remember is more for oneself.

Anyway, James did a lesson about this:
https://www.engvid.com/vocabulary-remember-recall-remind/

Hope this helps. :)

Hi Oleg,

The change itself is the effect, the act of changing is affect. You can say the emotional speech effected a change in the audience’s attitude toward the speaker.

Does this help?

if you mean without anyone’s assistance, then by myself (by suggests how)