Is there any difference in meaning between the two sentences below?
- You can expect positive effects on your future.
- You can expect positive effects in your future.
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Sign up to join this communityIs there any difference in meaning between the two sentences below?
You can expect positive effects on your future.
If action A has an effect on your future, it affects and changes your future. Here, "your future" is the direct object of the positive effects.
You can expect positive effects in your future.
Something happened. That "something" will have some positive effects but those effects will happen in the future. "In the future" here is just a time clause.
Edit to further clarify:
Going to college can have positive effects on your future.
In the above example, the action of "going to college" can directly affect and change "your future" (the direct object) positively.
Going to college can have positive effects in your future.
In this example, you're saying that the action of "going to college" can have positive effects but you're not saying it will change your future. Rather, "going to college" here affects something, we don't know what something is, but the action of "affect" or "have a positive effect" happens later, some time in the future.
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