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Affect and Effect

People often use the words affect and effect interchangeably, the reason for this is not only because they sound the same, but because their meanings are related. However, they can not be used interchangeably, as they do mean different things.

You have an affect.
The effect is the result.

There is a really simple way I round to help you remember which to use in a sentence.

The word effect is usually used as a noun. Whereas, the word affect is mostly used as a verb.

A verb is an action word.

The word affect, which stats with the letter a, is an action, and the word action also starts with the letter a.

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