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Do you know the difference
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Access and excess
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Access can be both a verb and a noun and refers
to the permission or ability to enter a place
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or to use something. “You can access the
art exhibit through the door on the right”
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Or for example:
“He doesn’t have access to the
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files” – meaning he doesn’t have permission;
he is not allowed to look at the files.
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Excess is a noun, and it refers to an
amount of something that is too much;
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it's not necessary or not usual.
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“On my birthday I always eat an excess of cake”
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meaning I eat too much cake.
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