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Facebook Grammar Debate: In the following sentence, would the proper word be affect or effect?
03-01-2013, 09:48 AM
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Ill-educated Internet users have had a noticeable and negative effect on English. Their consistently poor grammar has affected and changed the language such a way that even those who do not spend their lives on-line are impacted.

Effect is generally, but not always, used as a noun.
Affect is generally, but not always, used as a verb.

Unless you are very confident with the specific instances where they are not used as listed, it's best to use them as shown above. The odds of you being incorrect are much smaller that way.

Try Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style' or the AP Stylebook for more information.
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