“Affected the flower” and “effected a commotion” are right, but I think you’d
be better of just banishing the verb effect from your vocabulary. It’s
extremely uncommon and I and
otherpeople associate it with
pointy-haired bosses and
bureaucrats.
(There is another unrelated verb usage of effectused by
musicians: to effect
a signal is to process that signal with an
effect.)
“Affected the flower” and “effected a commotion” are right, but I think you’d be better of just banishing the verb effect from your vocabulary. It’s extremely uncommon and I and other people associate it with pointy-haired bosses and bureaucrats.
(There is another unrelated verb usage of effect used by musicians: to effect a signal is to process that signal with an effect.)
Agreed that the words are terrible as communication tools. Is there a good substitute that i can use to talk about causality?