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Sat 16 Jul, 2005 07:01 am
"Therefore, effective today I will relinquish my title as executive editor and forgo any compensation from the magazines. I will continue to promote weight resistance training, health and fitness for all through any avenue that is available to me, as I have done my entire life."
So, what is effective? What's its grammar? What does it refer to?
What is a weight resistance training? Is that one help people not to gain weight?
effective = beginning
weight resistance training = lifting weights and other methods of exercising muscles by having them act against a resisting force
Very clear. I see. Thank you.
"Effective" in this context means "in force". You might say, for example, that a new law or a new system "will be effective from next Thursday" or "will take effect next Thursday", meaning that it will come into force that day.
This quotation was not actually grammatically correct: "with effect from today" would have been better.
"With effect from today" might be grammatical, but it's not idiomatic. Most people (at least in the U.S.) would say and understand "effective today".
Yes, I know. Very "American" phrase. Thank you. I can understand this very "American" expression.
Quote:Most people (at least in the U.S.) would say and understand "effective today".
A difference between US and UK usage then - you would rarely hear that in British English.
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