Posted by Larry Hoover on August 26, 2004, at 10:53:01
In reply to Apostrophe Abuse, posted by Miss Honeychurch on August 25, 2004, at 12:54:46
I am also mortified by the vast confusion between affect and effect, both transitive verb's with quite different meaning's. To affect is to influence, to effect is to bring about, there is a special case of affect called effect, I've had arguments over the distinction, and it troubles me to discover that the youth of our world are being misinformed by their high school teacher's, just like they fail to acknowledge the insidious comma splice. Lets not drift into discussion of gerund's and participle's. Clearly, Latin ought to be taught at high school's throughout the land. Maybe those troop's wouldn't be troop's if they learned to speak the language correctly.
Lar
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