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To: NYer

Look at the cloud formation, amazing how one volcanoe can effect so much. Now for you wordsmiths, was it effect or affect?


10 posted on 06/25/2009 1:32:12 PM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
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To: VaRepublican

It depends on what you’re saying:

“...amazing how one volcano can effect so much.”

Effect: “...amazing how one volcano can [produce] so much.

Affect: “...amazing how one volcano can [influence its surroundings] so much.


17 posted on 06/25/2009 2:36:27 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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