Not much time to write, but I wanted to relay a situation that just occurred. I’m in the middle of proofreading a paper and wasn’t sure if I wanted to use the word ‘affect’ or ‘effect’. I’m generally not bad at grammar and spelling, but affect and effect generally always confuse me. I’m gonna send a whiny email to those guys who wrote the English language…what were they thinking?<\/p>\n
Anyway, to the point. In order to see which word was right, I simply typed the important part of the sentence into Google (in double quotes, of course, otherwise the little words don’t get searched). Then, based on the number of pages that came up for each search I was able to logically discover which was the correct (a\/e)ffect. Here’s the example I used:<\/p>\n
85-169, looks like affect wins! Next time you have a grammatical or spelling quandary, check your options on Google. Trust the people in internet land…we’re smarter when we work together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not much time to write, but I wanted to relay a situation that just occurred. I’m in the middle of proofreading a paper and wasn’t sure if I wanted to use the word ‘affect’ or ‘effect’. I’m generally not bad at grammar and spelling, but affect and effect generally always confuse me. I’m gonna send […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hci-topic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t