[Nep Nep]

effect/affect is like quickie IQ test

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

You can’t effect me with that affect.

[Politicalkiddo]

If you can’t figure out which of those to use, replace it with “impact” instead.

[impimp]

I still don’t know the difference no matter how hard I try.

[pierrem15]

My wife sees the affect/effect problem all the time in her college students' writing.

She didn't learn to speak English fluently until she was thirty, but her English is better than than many of her students who were born here.

The state just mandated a minimum 5 page paper for each intro class, and the professors are in a justified tizzy about how they will get the students to write a paper that long.

I recall having to write multiple 15 page papers with proper citations and bibliographies for a single English class in high school.

Most of her students are public school graduates-- the university ought to be able to charge back the costs of remedial math and English classes to the "high schools" from which they graduated.

[kitchen]

Moot and mute for extra credit.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

>>effect/affect is like quickie IQ test<<

Whenever I’m unsure which to use, I just type “impact” and spare them both.