No. 8. "Effect" is a noun. OK, I'll give 'em that, but it can also be a verb; By doing this or that, I can "effect" a change. Which means I can create a change. I can also "affect" a change by doing things a bit differently.
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Yep, I thought so, but didn't take the time to actually look it up. They're putting more and more words into the dictionary than I was allowed to use when I went to school.
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I use Netvibes as news reader for several rss feeds. They all seem to work fine except for USAToday. In that group, certain punctuation marks appear as &Apos;something or other. Here is an example of one case. Week's appears as Week&Apos;s The...
The object of this thread is to help those who want to be helped with spelling and grammar.
Do you know the difference between your and you’re?
Or, are you thinking, “I don’t know my grammar from a hole in the ground?”
Are you trying to...
Since the upgrade to Windows 10 I've been having a problem with punctuation marks in gmail. Specifically, question marks are being substituted for quotation marks and apostrophes, and maybe others. Any ideas why this is happening?
TIA,
Bob