I know someone who did their entire thesis purposely without using effect/affect, because they didn’t know the difference. Instead used “impact” and other similar words.
I can only imagine the impact that had on the end result’s impact. Probably didn’t have the impact they wanted on the readers who were unimpacted by the message.
I know someone who did their entire thesis purposely without using effect/affect, because they didn’t know the difference. Instead used “impact” and other similar words.
Affect is an action and effect just exists is how I always remembered it.
that’s a lot better than my method of remembering that effect is not a verb
Effect can be used as a verb though https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/effect
I can only imagine the impact that had on the end result’s impact. Probably didn’t have the impact they wanted on the readers who were unimpacted by the message.