Affect is a verb, although very rarely it can be used as a noun. Effect can be a verb or a noun, so it's to get them confused.
Try using them like this:
Effect (noun)
A thing that has happened.
'Watching his favourite team lose had little effect on Julian'.
Effect (verb)
To bring about change.
'We will effect changes to business policies from next year'.
Affect (verb)
To produce an effect on.
'Jeremy quitting smoking didn't affect the way Emma felt about him'.
Take a look at the exercise below to check your understanding. Remember to use the corrcect tenses!
- I took some pills for my cold, but they didn't have any .
- Spending some time apart can have a good on a relationship.
- The farm was badly by the flood.
- The drain drivers strike will really commuters.
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not to ambiguous
Taking this exercise had some effect on my English grammar knowledge.
The global crisis affected a lot of people.
The Government will effect some immediate strategies to cushion the upcoming recession.
It is nice i like that
It is nice i like that grammar.I am not speak English well but after see your blog i hope i get
difficult
It was difficult for me to uderstand the difference
I remember that I had a
I remember that I had a mistake using the words "effect" and "affect". Now I've revised this rule. But I still have some doubts about their usage. "To bring about change" and "To produce an effect on" sound a bit similar to me.
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If I could use "effect" as
If I could use "effect" as noun and "affect" as verb only it would be more understandable to me
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i had a mistake... in the end... the last sentence was a little difficult for me...
but i absolutely understand the difference now...
I did not understand this lesson..
Needed more help pls.
It was quite difficult...
It was quite difficult, but finally I understood it! ^_^
difficult
It is difficult for me to understand different between two verbs Effect and Affect. :^( And, unfortunately, I made two mistakes in the third and the fourth sentence.
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i couldnt understand clearly.
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all of them correct but
all of them correct but there are lots of derivations!!
effective,affection,etc..
any way thanks for the lesson.
yey
i got 4 out of 4! yay!
hmmm
Ok, I understand the meaning and using effect as a noun.
But I have still problems with the difference between effect and affect as a verb ..
Any suggestions?
THX
Affect and Effect
I would see it this way:
A + B = AB
In this case AB is the effect of the equation A plus B. Effect is used to show a result of some action.
No action, no effect (result of action itself is the effect). Remember this.
In the example given,
1: took pills (action), nothing happened to show any effect (no result is a result)
2: stay apart (action), has effect on the relationship (spoiled relationship is a result of staying apart)
A + B = AB. AB is used to cure headache.
In this case the effect of some action (a result of some action) has affected something else. Using result of current action to cause some changes on something else.
In the example given,
3: Flood (caused by rain) has affected the farm.
4: Strike (caused by drain drivers) has affected the commuters.
For example the #2 can have effect on their child.
Staying apart had some effect on their relationship, and it has affected their child emotion.
#3
The effect of continuous rain is flood, and it has affected the farmers, they are not able to produce crops.