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affect vs effect
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I consider myself a real idiot when it comes to the English language, and perhaps a lot of other things. Every time I see the DB function affected_rows, it makes me wonder if it should be effected_rows. So I checked it out on Google, and talked to somebody else about it, and it didn't help.

If affect is supposed to be a verb, and effect a noun, but "affected rows" makes it an adjective, right? Nowhere in the dictionary that I'm looking at does it say that affected or effected would be right.
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affect vs effect - by skunkbad - 03-23-2017, 01:53 PM
RE: affect vs effect - by InsiteFX - 03-23-2017, 03:14 PM
RE: affect vs effect - by skunkbad - 03-23-2017, 03:26 PM
RE: affect vs effect - by markusnippet - 04-04-2017, 03:32 AM
RE: affect vs effect - by JayAdra - 03-23-2017, 04:09 PM
RE: affect vs effect - by skunkbad - 03-23-2017, 06:50 PM
RE: affect vs effect - by JayPatel - 03-27-2017, 10:17 PM
RE: affect vs effect - by llebkered - 03-24-2017, 12:47 AM
RE: affect vs effect - by PaulD - 03-25-2017, 07:55 AM
RE: affect vs effect - by dave friend - 03-27-2017, 08:42 AM
RE: affect vs effect - by skunkbad - 03-27-2017, 02:06 PM



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