Get it right... please!
I have been spending every spare moment of my time studying, studying, studying to get this Certificate III & IV done once and for all. My final exam is booked for Tuesday 26 June ~ I can't wait til it's all over and I can be let loose to blast the fat of Australia out of bodies and into oblivion.
Which leads me on to a minor... complaint, if that's what you want to call it.
There have been errors scattered throughout some the text books I've been studying. Typos I can handle. Even the occasional incorrectly spelled word that is clearly not a typo. The odd wrong formatting... pushing it, but still bearable.
But incorrect usage of words? Forget it. It peeves me that whoever wrote the texts cannot tell the difference between AFFECT and EFFECT.
A child's development is not effected by their participation in physical ability, it is AFFECTED!
Affect is a verb, effect is a noun. Learn the difference and get it right... please!
Once in a while I see this misuse and I can let it go, but it's been sprinkled so liberally throughout my texts that I just had to vent and let it out somewhere.
Am I the only person in the world who has issues with stuff like this?
4 comments:
okay, Fii.. I must agree. There is a difference between affect and effect - granted.
But I have to also further remark that the use of the word 'effect' as a verb is also permissible in the English Language.
The statement "Child's development is effected by their participation in physical activity," is absolutely correct. IE: A child's development is accomplished (or brought about) by their participation in physical activity.
Well, that's my 5c worth coz we dont have 2c no more. LOL.
In God we trust
MC
Mmilidzi, I appreciate your comment and input. However I stand by my statement. I understand what you are saying, but the sentence I used as an example is most definitely incorrect. To use it in the way you suggest, the sentence should be entirely re-structured, if indeed such a restructuring could actually make it correct.
Fi, don't even GET ME STARTED. Further and farther, its and it's, judgEment, who and that (the number of worship songs that get this wrong is UNBELIEVABLE.. God is not a THAT; he is a WHO)...
By the way, I love the guitar intro to "Big Girls Don't Cry".
Devi, somehow I knew this post would definitely get a comment out of you. I've never seen "judgment" before. What about sepArate? Stationary and stationery?
I must admit, however, that I still have difficulty with license and licence, also principle and principal (but I do always look them up before I use them because I hate using them incorrectly).
As for that guitar intro, I want to be able to play it one day!
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