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Affect vs. Effect?


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Yes, "affect" is used as in "The problem affected all of us!". "Affect" can take tense endings and inflections: affected, will affect, affecting, may affect, must affect, should affect, would affect, could affect.

"Effect" is a noun and can only appear in two form "effect" and "effects" (singular and plural).

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I had a problem with this one too until I learned it sort of as an equation:

Too much rain + level of water = flooding    where the + is 'affecting' and = is the 'effect'

Too much rain -> affects --> the level of water, which --> results--> in flooding (catastrophy)

'Affect' is the doing and 'effect' is the outcome.

I hope this made any sense, because it did to me when I learned, haha.

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If acronyms are helpful to you, here's one that's used for remembering the difference between affect, the verb and effect, the noun: 

RAVEN  -- Remember: Affect = Verb, Effect =  Noun

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If acronyms are helpful to you, here's one that's used for remembering the difference between affect, the verb and effect, the noun: 

RAVEN  -- Remember: Affect = Verb, Effect =  Noun

That's an interesting mnemonic acronym! I'll use it to teach my nephews when they start learning how to spell the word in school. Pretty, cool!

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