Will her affect have an effect?
In Grammar Girl's New York Times bestseller, Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Mignon Fogarty does a great job of explaining the difference between the words, "affect" and "effect" in writing.
I WOULD NEVER AFFECT INTEREST JUST FOR
EFFECT: AFFECT VERSUS EFFECT
If you don’t know the difference between affect and effect, don’t
worry—you’re not alone. These two words are consistently among the
most searched for words in online dictionaries, and I get at least one
e-mail message a week asking me to explain the difference. In fact, the
confusion over affect and effect could be why impact has emerged to mean
“affect” in business writing: people give up trying to figure out the difference
between affect and effect and rewrite their sentences, unfortunately
substituting an equally inappropriate word. (See “Impact,” page 33.)
The difference between affect and effect is actually pretty straightforward:
the majority of the time you use affect as a verb and effect as a noun.
Affect most commonly means something like “to influence” or “to
change.”
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