These words are often confused because of their related meanings but differing spellings.
Affect is a verb meaning “to influence.”
Effect can be both a verb and a noun. Its noun form is related to affect. (Its verb form, meaning “to accomplish” or “to put into operation,” has a different meaning and usage altogether.) In its noun form, an effect is the result of someone or something that is affecting another person or thing.
Here is an example:
Smoking affects health. The effect is lung cancer.
Affect is the verb causing the influence or change (on health). The effect is the result (lung cancer).
I thought that there is the difference between ‘to effect’ and ‘to affect’: ‘to affect’ means ‘to influence smth usually in a negative way’, ‘to effect’ is neutral. Is it really true?
Would you help me with this sentence:
This change will be affect immediately or will be effect immediately?
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Ah yes, but affect can also be a noun, just to confuse even more. Affect (prounounced with the emphasis on the first syllable) is an observed emotional state. “The emotional affect stayed with me a long time after the fire.”