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For starters, with only one exception of interest to psychiatrists and psychologists, affect is always a verb.
As a verb, affect is most commonly used in the sense of "to influence". Smoking affects the health. Effect as a verb means to bring about. The personnel cuts were designed to effect an increase in the bottom line.
As a noun effect is a result. The rules had an immediate effect. He screamed for effect.
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