When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it.
By
reinventingwyscan
on July 04, 2007
Grr, argh, and all that noise. Just memorize it and move on.
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I have settled on the "affect" is a verb and "effect" is a noun rule. It seems to work most of the times that I call upon either of those words.
He affected a laugh. Okay, a verb. He faked a laugh.
She effected a laugh. Weird sounding. Repair sentence: Her presence had an effect on his laughter.
He affects me. Okay. He messes with my emotions somehow or cleans out my bank account and breaks my heart.
She effects me. Like a billiard ball?
She has an effect on me. Yes.
The effects of her actions. Okay.
The affects of her actions. Weird.
If you put all his worldly effects in the safety deposit box, that will be best. But if you put all of his worldly affects in the safety deposit box, that sounds like an evil science experiment having to do with extracting someone's emotions and locking them away.