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Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.
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In America, recently came across "back-petal", instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".
affect vs effect.
the usual case for effect is as a noun, and for affect, as a verb.
This is the one that drives me crazy when I see it.
Just to clarify the exceptions to the general rule:
effect as a verb: to cause or bring about
This policy effects change.
affect as a noun: a display of emotion
She greeted us with warm affect.
Personally I would jsut deprecate the word "affect" entirely. Same with "inflammable" and "cleanse."
"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
I've been told which is which 50 times and in 12 seconds I'm gonna have no fucking clue again so I'll just pretend effect is the only option.
Here's one mnemonic l: most of the time effect is a noun, which use articles a/the. "The" ends with e and effect starts with e, so "the effect" lines up the e's.
Or you could try RAVEN: remember affect verb, effect noun
There are three uses for each, intertwined.
Good luck.
I'm only aware of affect as verb or noun and effect as verb or noun. What are the other two?
Edit: Haha, I can see why people get confused now. I just looked at the dictionary page for effect, and it's hilariously long and complicated: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/effect
"The weather can affect/effect your mood"
Both correct. Both mean the same thing.
While the second one is somewhat correct, they don't mean the same thing.
"The weather can affect your mood." -> The weather can change your mood, i.e., you had one mood before, and another mood after the weather affected it.
"The weather can effect your mood." -> The weather can bring your mood into being, i.e., you had no mood before, but you had one after the weather effected it.
imo, for this to mean the same thing "mood" has to change meanings in between.