Monday, April 24, 2006
Mirror Coincidence: Call me the grammar queen
About an hour apart, two people asked me the difference between affect and effect. Ok, so a lot of people don't know the difference, but I haven't been asked that question in months. So how do I explain it? Affect causes the effect. That doesn't always work, but mostly it does. I usually have to ask them to tell me the context.
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2 comments:
I always think of it as:
Affect is what is GOING to happen or the thing that causes something to happen.
Effect is the aftermath - or the effect of what affects it. :)
You put it so much better than I did.
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