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Old 03-22-2010, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Zombie View Post
I've always explained it like: To affect something is to change it in some way. The effect is the result of that change.

People can also remember that affect is almost always used as a verb, whereas effect is almost always used as a noun.
I liked my way of teaching this lesson better only because I'm not good at verbs and adjectives et al. I only know that a noun is a person. place or thing. The rest of them I'll never remember even if my life depended on it.
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