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Trunks Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Questions regarding "affect" and "effect"?

Consider these sentences:

The experience had a profound effect on her. (Does this information tell us what kind of experience she might have had? Does this sentence mean that the experience changed her? If so, in what way?)

The tax increases have affected us all. (Does this information tell us what how tax affected the people? Does this sentence mean that the tax increase changed the peoples spending or saving? If so, in what way?)
  

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Trunks The experience had a profound effect on her. (Does this information tell us what kind of experience she might have had? No.

— CalifJim

  • Trunks The experience had a profound effect on her.
  • (Does this information tell us what kind of experience she might have had?
  • No.
  • We have no idea what the effect was.
  • We only know that the effect was profound.
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TrunksThe experience had a profound effect on her. (Does this information tell us what kind of experience she might have had?
No. We have no idea what the effect was. We only know that the effect was profound.
TrunksDoes this sentence mean that the experience changed her? If so, in what way?
We might assume that the experi
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I have two more questions:

Does "affect" always mean "a bad effect or influence on sb/sth"?

E.g. Alcohol affects driver's concentration.

Plus, if someone has an influence on sb else, it can be good or bad, right!
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TrunksDoes "affect" always mean "a bad effect or influence on sb/sth"?
No. People do tend to use it that way a lot, though.
Trunks if someone has an influence on sb else, it can be good or bad, right!
Right. I try to influence people to use good grammar, for example!
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