Soldato
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This thread has had a positive *cough*ffect on helping me remember!
you affect a change and measure the effect of that change
my head hurts.....Would you borrow me 5 minutes to learn me how to use all these words? I bought my notepad with me
Is there a foolproof way to tell the difference?
This.you affect a change and measure the effect of that change
I've never understood why people don't know the difference between those two words. There are many other examples like this too;
Learn / Teach
Lend / Borrow
Brought / Bought
Either / Neither
etc. etc.
Except the post you quoted is wrong. As Zogger said you effect a change. Not affect.This.
E.g., X affected Y, and you measured the effect.
I've never understood why people don't know the difference between those two words. There are many other examples like this too;
Learn / Teach
Lend / Borrow
Brought / Bought
Either / Neither
etc. etc.
The one I have to think about is who/whom.See, all the others to me are blatantly obvious and don't give me pause for thought. Affect/Effect on the other hand always gets me, I think it's because in general conversation they sound identical, unless you purposefully enunciate them then you can never tell which is being said.
He's misused effect in this. It should be "Your grammar has affected me."
Or if you're a chicken when it comes to grammar Nazis just say impact and never worry about saying affect/effect again