Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Confession

Every time I use the word "affect" or "effect," it's just a stab in the dark.

3 comments:

FLG said...

If you stick with the rule that affect is a verb and effect is a noun, then that solve about 95% of the problem.

Lay and lie is what confuses me.

Emily Hale said...

I also have an immense amount of trouble with apophatic and cataphatic. Some things just refuse to go into my head.

Emily Hale said...

I've come across this problem just now in a letter I'm writing and I think that the problem is my ability to tell nouns from verbs.