Can someone clarrify what affected means and effected means and how they are used in a sentence?

Question

I always seem to get it wrong, help appreciated.

Answer 1

Yeah, the stuff above, *but*

In a specialized sense, the term "affected" means "contrived" or kinda like you're faking it. Like when people who have no connections to Britain other than the odd British comedy say, "bloody" as a mild curse, like, "My bloody umbrella broke in the middle of the storm and I got soaked." They sound like fools when they say it--it isn't part of their dialect and they're just trying to sound more worldly. Koren Zailckas said "bloody" a lot in _Smashed_. And it sounded totally affected. Like you're affecting another way of speaking or behavior or something like that. Just thought I'd throw that in if you ever hear somebody say that a poseur is "affected."

Answer 2

EFFECT: The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.

AFFECT Smoking can affect your heart.

Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence" (how smoking affects health). Effect means "to bring about or execute": layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about.

Answer 3

Affected means an outside influence which causes a change in a person, place, or thing, or non-reality. theory.

Effected is the recipient or result of the change.
Changes in Science theories, and research are often the result of of affect and effect influence.

The warming trend if affecting the planet.
The result is effecting coastal cities, low lie countries like Holland (which could disappear and Greenland (which is now growing potatoes right across from Glaciers)

Answer 4

Affect: to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.

Effect: something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.

The effects affected my judgement.

Answer 5

affected-1. acted upon; influenced.
2. influenced in a harmful way; impaired, harmed, or attacked, as by climate or disease.
3. (of the mind or feelings) impressed; moved; touched:
She was deeply affected by their generosity.
effected--Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.
A scientific law, hypothesis, or phenomenon: the photovoltaic effect.
Advantage; avail: used her words to great effect in influencing the jury.
He said he was greatly worried, or words to that effect.

Answer 6

Effect means to cause something. Like, make a law go into effect. To effect a change. If you are good at fixing things, you are very effective.

Affect means to influence something. For example, I don't like the affect that income tax has on my cash flow after that tax law went into effect.

Answer 7

"To affect something, is to make a change to something, like, "By using new guidelines for talking in class, the teacher affected a change in the behavior of the class as a whole." "The effect of using these new guidelines was better grades and a quieter class."

Effect: what happened as a result.
Affect: to bring about a change

Answer 8

How will eating lots of peanuts affect my digestion?
What will be the effect on my digestion of eating too many peanuts?
I was affected badly by the peanuts.
The peanuts effected an adverse reaction in my gut.

Hope these examples help!

Julie

Answer 9

af‧fect1  /v. əˈfɛkt; n. ˈæfɛkt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[v. uh-fekt; n. af-ekt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–verb (used with object) 1. to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.
2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.
3. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
–noun 4. Psychology. feeling or emotion.
5. Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.
6. Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling

ef‧fect  /ɪˈfɛkt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-fekt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
2. power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence: His protest had no effect.
3. the state of being effective or operative; operation or execution; accomplishment or fulfillment: to bring a plan into effect.
4. a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.
5. meaning or sense; purpose or intention: She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect.
6. the making of a desired impression: We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
7. an illusory phenomenon: a three-dimensional effect.
8. a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer): the Doppler effect.
9. special effects.
–verb (used with object) 10. to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen: The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring.
—Idioms11. in effect, a. for practical purposes; virtually: His silence was in effect a confirmation of the rumor.
b. essentially; basically.
c. operating or functioning; in force: The plan is now in effect.

12. take effect, a. to go into operation; begin to function.
b. to produce a result: The prescribed medicine failed to take effect.



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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L effectus the carrying out (of a task, etc.), hence, that which is achieved, outcome, equiv. to effec- (var. s. of efficere to make, carry out; ef- ef- + -ficere, comb. form of facere to do1) + -tus suffix of v. action]

—Related forms
ef‧fect‧i‧ble, adjective


—Synonyms 1. outcome, issue. Effect, consequence(s), result refer to something produced by an action or a cause. An effect is that which is produced, usually more or less immediately and directly: The effect of morphine is to produce sleep. A consequence, something that follows naturally or logically, as in a train of events or sequence of time, is less intimately connected with its cause than is an effect: Punishment is the consequence of disobedience. A result may be near or remote, and often is the sum of effects or consequences as making an end or final outcome: The English language is the result of the fusion of many different elements. 10. achieve, realize, fulfill, perform, consummate.
—Usage note See affect1.
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Answer 10

Cause and effect, sound effects, weather that affects your health, an affected tone of voice
AFFECT – verb – to act upon, to change or to cause a change
AFFECTED – adjective – influenced by an outside force
EFFECT – noun – result; consequence