{"id":1532,"date":"2015-04-26T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:39:16","slug":"is-that-the-word-i-wanted-part-2-effect-vs-affect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/is-that-the-word-i-wanted-part-2-effect-vs-affect\/","title":{"rendered":"Is that the word I wanted? Part 2: effect vs. affect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Katya Rivers<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know about you, but I still mix up the words effect and affect. Which one is which? And when do I use one over the other? Here are a couple simple points to help you understand the usage of and the difference between these two words that sound so much alike but are, in fact, quite different.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affect <\/strong>is usually used as a verb. It means to produce a change in or influence something. Use it when describing someone or something thing influencing another someone or something. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The grade on this exam will affect my entire GPA.<\/li>\n<li>How does the crime rate affect hiring levels by local police forces?<\/li>\n<li>Your opinions do not affect my decision to move.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Effect<\/strong> is most often used as a noun. It means a change that has occurred or indicates a consequence. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What effect did his speech have on the audience?<\/li>\n<li>Creepy music in a movie gives the effect that something is about to happen.<\/li>\n<li>The special effects in movies today are aided by computers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another way to think about it is this: It is appropriate to use the word \u201ceffect\u201d if one of these words is used immediately before the words<em> into, on, take, the, an, as well as, or<\/em>. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In analyzing a situation, it is important to take the concepts of cause and effect into consideration.<\/li>\n<li>The dramatic play had an effect on the audience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And if these examples aren\u2019t enough, just remember that when in doubt, look it up!<\/p>\n<p><em>Katya Rivers is a senior majoring in religion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Katya Rivers I don\u2019t know about you, but I still mix up the words effect and affect. Which one is which? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,109],"tags":[92,125],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-writeherewritenowwriteon","tag-editing","tag-word-choice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-oI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}