• jaselle@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    not blaming you but now you know. affect is the verb meaning “to influence or alter,” effect is the noun meaning “the result of a cause.”

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      17 hours ago

      all I heard was “lots of words to make it clearer that you don’t know the difference”

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        15 hours ago

        wdym?

        right:

        • the news affected me.
        • What effect will the new curriculum have on the kids?

        wrong:

        • the news effected me
        • what affect will the new curriculum have on the kids?
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      4 hours ago

      Except when affect is a noun, when referring to someone’s countenance (“she was beyond exhausted, with a flat affect”).

      And when effect is a verb, to bring about: “he effected great change in society with his government policies.”