{"id":51740,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/affect-v-s-effect-when-would-you-use-each-of-them"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:37:23","slug":"affect-v-s-effect-when-would-you-use-each-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/affect-v-s-effect-when-would-you-use-each-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Affect v.s. effect, when would you use each of them?"},"content":{"rendered":"

More often than not, affect<\/b> is used as a transitive verb<\/b> (pertaining to a specified object), and effect<\/b> is used as a noun<\/b>.<\/p>\n

COMMON APPLICATION OF EFFECT\/AFFECT<\/b><\/p>\n

The definition of effect<\/b><\/a> usually used is in relation to a cause, a result of becoming operative, a degree of success, or an impression. For example:<\/p>\n

The efficiency of the computational algorithm had a significant effect<\/b> on the amount of time and memory required to perform the calculations. <\/p>\n

Here, effect was a noun. The cause was the efficiency of the algorithm. The degree of success was significant, because it made an impression upon the observer’s mind that the calculations took so much less time.<\/p>\n

The definition of affect<\/b><\/a> usually is something like, “to have an effect on something”. For example:<\/p>\n

The efficiency with which the computational algorithm was written greatly affected<\/b> the amount of time and memory required to perform the calculations.<\/p>\n

Here, affect was a transitive verb. The efficiency of how the algorithm was written, in effect, affected how quickly it finished.<\/p>\n

THE CONFUSING SCENARIO<\/b><\/p>\n

However, there comes an ambiguous case, since we have two very similar verb definitions for effect and affect according to Oxford English Dictionary<\/b>:<\/p>\n