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Affect and effect - name the mistake
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't know the answer to the question, but I do have a pointless tip for affect and effect - if you can just remember that it's the Greenhouse Effect, you'll be laughing all the way to the top of the Good Grammar League! :-)
Oh - and I'm so pleased someone else is taking the "use of the English language" baton from me, after someone had a bit of a go on my other thread I thought it best I shut up. Least I know I'm not the only one! :-) Thank you Bert! :-)
Affect is normally used as a verb meaning "to influence, change, assume." Effect can be either a verb meaning "to bring about" or a noun meaning "result, impression." These words are listed in a chapter titled "Usage," so I suppose "Incorrect Usage" would be your explanation. I don't find anywhere that there is a "special name" for incorrect usage.
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