→ See Verb table Examples from the Corpus affect You say that something has an effect on another thing: Smoking has a bad effect on your health.✗Don’t say: Smoking affects on your health. You say that something affects another thing: Smoking affects your health.3 formal PRETEND to pretend to have a particular feeling, way of speaking etc As usual, Simon affected complete boredom. Grammar Affect is often passive in this meaning. 2 EMOTIONAL to make someone feel strong emotions We were all deeply affected by her death. S2 W1 AWL verb 1 EFFECT/INFLUENCE to do something that produces an effect or change in something or in someone’s situation the areas affected by the hurricane a disease that affects the central nervous system decisions which affect our lives Trading has been adversely affected by the downturn in consumer spending.Don't be one of them! Another trick is to remember that affect comes first alphabetically, and an action ( to affect) has to occur before you can have a result ( an effect).From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English affect af‧fect / əˈfekt /
The difference between affect and effect is so slippery that people have started using "impact" as a verb instead. Most of the time, you'll want affect as a verb meaning to influence something and effect for the something that was influenced. Put another way, a government that can't produce change won't be able to produce surprises it will be predictable. "Did you have a significant effect on the development of some strain of philosophy that profoundly impacted the world?" ( Made You Up)Īdding to the confusion, effect can also be used as a verb to mean "to produce or to cause to come into being." Here's an example that uses it correctly:Ī government unable to effect any change is a government that will produce no surprises. The downed power line had an impact on some power customers: they were without electricity overnight.Įffect is most commonly used as a noun meaning "the result or impact of something, an outcome." If there's "a/an/the" in front of it, it's an effect.
It means to influence something, such as in the headline from the Albuquerque News: You can't affect the creepy poem by reading it, but you can enjoy the effect of a talking bird. Think of Edgar Allan Poe and his RAVEN: Remember A ffect Verb E ffect Noun. Choosing between affect and effect can be scary.
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