Question

Replaced the underlined noun with the appropriate verb in the below sentence-
My teacher had a strong influence on me during my childhood.
A) My teacher strongly influenzed my childhood.
B) My teacher strongly influencered my childhood.
C) My teacher strongly influenced my childhood.
D) My teacher strongly influed by childhood.

Answer 1

Hint:To turn nouns into verbs we add endings to nouns and this process is known as verbing, verbification. Few examples of verbing are- She eyed an opportunity, He skyped regularly.

Complete answer:
The meaning of the underlined word influence is ‘the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself’ and other words for influence is effect, impact or control or hold or power.
Option A) My teacher strongly influenzed my childhood – is an incorrect answer because the spelling ‘influenzed’ is wrong and there is no such word in English language. Thus, this option is an incorrect answer.
Option B) My teacher strongly influencered my childhood - is an incorrect answer because the spelling ‘influencered’ is wrong and there is no such word in English language. Thus, this option is an incorrect answer.
Option C) My teacher strongly influenced my childhood – is the correct answer because ‘influenced’ is a past tense of influence and this is a verb. The meaning of the verb influenced is affect or determine. And this is the correct answer.
Option D) My teacher strongly influed by childhood - is an incorrect answer because the spelling ‘influed’ is wrong and there is no such word in English language. Thus, this option is an incorrect answer.
My teacher had a strong influence on me during my childhood – Noun
My teacher strongly influenced my childhood – Verb form

Hence, the correct answer is Option C.

Note: 'Influence' is an abstract noun which means: The capacity to have an effect on the character, behavior and development of someone or something. The verb form for the word ‘influence’ is ‘influence' only and the meaning is 'Have an influence on something/somebody'. The past tense of influence is: influenced.