Confusing words: Affect and Effect

Confusing words: Affect and Effect

This tutorial will focus on the most common meanings of affect and effect:

• Affect: verb, meaning to change

• Effect: noun, meaning consequence.

Multiple Choice

Justin's lunch had a negative ______________on his stomach. After all, twelve beefsteaks, a cheesecake, a pancake, and two pitted prunes are bound to ______________________ his system.

• effect/effect
• affect/affect
• effect/affect
• affect/affect

Multiple Choice

Reading Helen Keller's autobiography had a profound affect/effect on Isabella; she decided to learn sign language and volunteer at a school for children who are deaf.

• affect

• effect

Multiple Choice

How do you think the school's new dress code will affect/effect the students?

• affect

• effect

Multiple Choice

Patrick worried that his knee injury would affect/effect his ability to play in the upcoming soccer tournament.

• affect

• effect

Multiple Choice

Gum disease is one possible affect/effect of not flossing your teeth.

• affect

• effect

Multiple Choice

The loud music coming from next door affects/effects my concentration.

• affects

• effects

Multiple Choice

The early frost will ____ the crops.

• affect
• effect

Multiple Choice

We may never know the full _____ of the radiation leak.

• effect
• affect

Multiple Choice

Supply and demand have a direct ____ on the prices of commodities.

• effect
• affect

Multiple Choice

The principal's new rules _____ the school

• effected
• affected

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His years of smoking have negatively _______ his health.

• affected
• effected

Multiple Choice

Falling on my head had a bad _____  on my memory.

• affect
• effect

Multiple Choice

My mood can ____ my thinking.

• affect
• effect

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Television has a strong ____ on public opinion.

• effect

• affect

Multiple Choice

The destructive _____ from wars last for years.

• affects
• effects

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Wars _____ everybody.

• effect
• affect

Multiple Choice

The bright yellow walls in my room have a positive affect/effect on my mood.

• affect

• effect

Multiple Choice

The heavy rain _____ my dog (and my carpet)-- he decided to go potty in the house instead of getting wet.

• Affected
• Effected

Multiple Choice

It could  _______ your future if you post ridiculous things on SnapChat.

• Effect
• Affect

Multiple Choice

There are many things you can do to ___________ your grade in this class.

• Affect
• Effect

Multiple Choice

Kira loves to chew on pens.  "How does this ______________ her?" you ask. She has ink on her face and her dentist is becoming stupendously rich.

• affect
• effect

Multiple Choice

Yaniv wore his best jacket to the dance, but he forgot his pants.  This _________________ his chances for student government in a big way!

• affected
• effected

Multiple Choice

With glue and paste, Asher molded his hair into the shape of a parrot.  This ______________________ his head because birds tend to nest there frequently.

• effected
• affected

Multiple Choice

For the Homecoming Dance, Gabriel gave his lovely date a parsley corsage.  This had a negative ___________________on his odds for dating in the future.

• affect
• effect

Multiple Choice

Elana had an amazing ___________________ on society when she invented solar-powered ketchup and jelly packet openers.  Unfortunately, the ketchup ________________ the people who ate it!  They all lit up!

• effect/affected
• affect/effected
• effect/ affect
• affect/effect