B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for April 04, 2017

“Effect” is the noun, “affect” is the verb. “The effect on this will affect that in such a way…” DUH

B.C., you’re no different than any commenter on the internet! They confuse “effect” and “affect”, “then” and “than”, “lightning” and “lightening”, “to” and “too”, “there” and “their”, and the classic “your” and “you’re”…

Psych meds can effect a change in a patient’s affect.

But the side effects may affect his willingness to take them.

Logically, as a prehistoric person, he shouldn’t even know English, which didn’t exist until after Biblical times- and didn’t look as it does now until hundreds of years later.

That may be what’s giving him trouble.

I have the solution. I simply write “aeffect” for both words. You’re all very welcome.

flammable, inflammable

I__Am is exactly right. Effect is a noun; affect is a verb.

Affect=action, effect=result !

Irregardless

You commenters are all laying.

Sloaches, I find that one especially irritating.

Lanin, I like your approach!

I doubt that’s even a secert

Effect or Affect…not important to me, Math now that’s important !

Ben Affect. He sometimes makes movies.

worst of all – the women are hiding and taking notes

As a noun, Effect is a result, and Affect is an emotion.—> Cause and effect, learning affect.As a verb, Effect means to cause to come into being, and Affect is to alter somthing’s state.—> To effect change, to affect the results.

My question is, who is listening to his secret?

No matter how many times I have it explained I’ll never understand noun and verb.

Effecting fecking affects Affleck’s fleck effect affect. @CLAYTONEMERY1: I like that mnemonic. (Or is it pneumonic? ;-)

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/affect-or-effect

“Effect, on the other hand, is used both as a noun and a verb, although is more commonly used as a noun. As a noun it means ‘a result or an influence’, as in:

Move the cursor until you get the effect you want.

The beneficial effects of exercise are well documented.

Over time the effect of loud music can damage your hearing.

When used as a verb effect means ‘to bring something about as a result’. It’s most often used in a formal context as oppose to everyday English:

Growth in the economy can only be effected by stringent economic controls.

The new policies did little to effect change.

The prime minister effected many policy changes.

The key thing to remember is that effect is most commonly used as a noun, whereas affect is typically used as a verb."

Usually, most commonly, most often. All imply exceptions

The two common errors that irritate me the most:

“Break” for “brake”, and occasionally vice-versa. I’m an engineer. If we don’t know the difference, you’ll be lucky if your car is the only thing that breaks.

“Literally” for “figuratively”. That’s become so common that you’ll be misunderstood if you use “literally” properly, and there is no other single word with that meaning.