I am a school teacher and keep wondering how they are going to afford fuel for the buses. This Tuesday is an abbreviated day where the kids pickup there report cards on the last day of school. They come from 8-9:30am. What a waste of tax payers money. We already sent the report cards home Friday.
wait, you're a teacher and misused affected (its with an a if its a verb), those poor poor kids... (I make mistakes all the time - I'm a teacher too - just bustin ya)
but yeah, I didn't even think about the buses, thats pretty annoying, though I do think at least in our district, we negotiate a price prior to the year, so the bus company is the one losing money on the deal, not the taxpayers
personally, I have about a 20-25 minute commute each way, so I go through a tank a week, and that means considerably less disposable income, I think I'll be doing a lot of walking this summer
First off I'd like to point out I am not a teacher and that the above statement is wrong.
Affect is both a verb and noun as is effect both a verb and noun. It is incorrect that affect is the verb and effect is a noun.
af·fect1 Audio Help /v. əˈfɛkt; n. ˈæfɛkt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[v. uh-fekt; n. af-ekt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object) 1. to act on; produce an effect or change in: Cold weather affected the crops.
2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of: The music affected him deeply.
3. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
–noun 4. Psychology. feeling or emotion.
5. Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.
6. Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.
ef·fect Audio Help /ɪˈfɛkt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-fekt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
2. power to produce results; efficacy; force; validity; influence: His protest had no effect.
3. the state of being effective or operative; operation or execution; accomplishment or fulfillment: to bring a plan into effect.
4. a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.
5. meaning or sense; purpose or intention: She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect.
6. the making of a desired impression: We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
7. an illusory phenomenon: a three-dimensional effect.
8. a real phenomenon (usually named for its discoverer): the Doppler effect.
9. special effects.
–verb (used with object) 10. to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen: The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring.
The main difference between the words is that as a verb affect is to bring about something or make an impression on a feeling or mind of a person.
Effect as a verb is to accomplish something or create an effect.
Sorry, just didn't want to have the little ones reading this thread to be misinformed.