Tip, obviously it's still grammatical to use it that way, you just have to be careful of confusion. I would just say make, frankly, I'm not sure it's worth the confusion. Likewise, effect as a verb, frankly, I don't what you get out of this. Particular kind of English, it's to be used in a specific context. Noun is professional jargon, frankly, this is psychologist talk and that means it's a very Of clarity, you need to be very certain when you're using them. Yes these exceptions exist but I think in the interest

Is that affect is a verb and effect is a noun, and That these are exceptions and they're pretty rare. And the other obnoxious exception is affect as a noun, which is like a psychology term, it really means someone's personality. New mayor would effect change in her town. In the phrase effect change, which really means to bring about change. Number one: the wordĮffect with an E as verb. Now, of course there areĪlways obnoxious exceptions, let's cover them briefly,īut just bear in mind that these are pretty rare. Pronunciation of those just to give you the distinction. So, affect, we're using it as a verb, effect we're using it as a noun. Write this sentence again, but with affect, with a verb, we'd say: the drought affected Angela's crops. This is effect with an E is the same way as saying result. So, we'd wanna say: theĭrought had a nasty effect. Well, we're signaling hereīy using the article a and the adjective nasty that So, we're looking at this sentence: the drought had a nastyīlank on Angela's crops. The result of that change, and affect with an A, or affect, is the change agent if that makes sense. Now, both of these words mean something happened, right? They both mean that there was a change, but effect with an E is Let's take this sentence: the drought had a nastyīlank on Angela's crops. That's the too long,ĭidn't read of this video, and who reads a video, but You're looking at these two words and you're trying to decide, oh which one do I use? Affect is a verb, effect is a noun. Than that, obviously, but most of the time, when To sum it up, let's just put the TL, DR right at the top. I make this mistake all the time and I think it's important

Today we're going to talk about two of my, well, Iĭon't know if I'd call them favorite, but two of my mostįrequently confused words.

Affecting someone or effecting