RE: Affect vs. effect?

["Parker, Cassandra M." <CMPARKER -at- intermedia -dot- com>]

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Parker, Cassandra M. 
		Sent:	Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:11 PM
		To:	TECHWR-L
		Subject:	RE: Affect vs. effect?

		Matt,

		I agree with Doug.  

		Affect, effect:

		1.  Affect is a verb meaning to change or influence.
(Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.)

		2.  Effect is a verb meaning to bring into existence, to
produce as a result.  (Every cause produces more than one effect.)

		3.  Effect is also a noun meaning result or outcome.  (The
report will have the desired effect.)

		Cassandra



				-----Original Message-----
				From:	Hart, Geoff
[mailto:Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA] <mailto:[mailto:Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA]> 
				Sent:	Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:03 PM
				To:	TECHWR-L
				Subject:	Affect vs. effect?

				Matt Floyd wonders which is correct:

				<<Canceling an item in the box will effect
the block utilization
				percentage.>>

				Only if you mean that cancelling somehow
creates (effects) that percentage.
				(One useful mnemonic: "e" in effects and "e"
in create.)

				<<Canceling an item in the box will affect
block utilization percentage.>>

				Only if you mean that cancelling changes
(affects) that percentage. (One
				useful mnemonic: "a" in affects and "a" in
changes).

				--Geoff Hart, FERIC, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
				geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
<mailto:geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca> 
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