that's a little trick I often use. If I don't know what kind of word to use, I'll substitute similar words and see if it makes sense. So the arrows affected aardvark . The arrows hit Aardvark . They poked Aardvark . And they annoyed Aardvark . Those are all verbs. So if you can remember that sentence, you can compare it to a sentence you're trying to write and seeif it's kinda like that sentence. And that's one way to, to choose the right word and remember that 'affected', the verb, starts with an 'A' because the arrows affected Aardvark .
So at the moment, we think that-- I'm not actually sure what the current thinking is about where COVID came from. Is it an aardvark ? I can't remember. I haven't seen.
They're making craziness happen to the balls. So then 'effect' is the noun. And this is the example sentence with all E's for the noun. The effect was eye-popping. The effect, the thing that happened to Aardvark , the noun, was eye-popping. And you can see that is a noun by substituting other nouns in the sentence. So the blood was eye-popping. The holes were eye-popping. And the sound, the sound Aardvark made, was eye-popping. So those are example sentences where one uses 'affect' the verb and the other one uses 'effect' the noun.
I don't do that. So I just sent alphabetical, and I said aardvark . And I think that's what sealed the deal because I think at that point they're like, all right, so this guy is
So I, I,the first memory trick I came up with uses this sentence because it's all A's. So Aardvark is our friend and it's all A's. ëThe arrows affected Aardvark .í And 'affected' is a verb in that sentence. The arrows are taking an action on Aardvark . They're affecting him. And you can see that it's a verb by substituting other verbs and they work in the sentence, that's a little trick I often use. If I don't know what kind of word to use, I'll substitute similar words and see if it makes sense. So the arrows affected aardvark . The arrows hit
the thing that happened to Aardvark , the noun, was eye-popping. And you can see that is a noun by substituting other nouns in the sentence. So the blood was eye-popping. The holes were eye-popping. And the sound, the sound Aardvark made, was eye-popping. So those are example sentences where one uses 'affect' the verb and the other one uses 'effect' the noun. So another trick is that nouns can usually take an article. So 'the effect was eye-popping'.
But you can still put an article in front of 'effect'. When, when what you want is the noun, you can usually put an article in front of it. It doesnít work at all with the verb. So you can't say, 'The arrows the affected Aardvark ' 'He was the affected by the layoffs.' That doesn't make any sense. It's not even remotely grammatical. So if you can put an article like 'the' in front of the word, then the one you want is 'effect' with an E. And the way I remember it is that 'the' ends with E. And 'effect' starts with
rule. So if you get this part right, you'll be right like 85% of the time and that's probably better than you're doing now. Some of you. I'm sure some of you have it down. But 'affect' is usually a verb and 'effect' is usually a noun. So Aardvark is a character in my book. Aardvark and Squiggly are buddies and they fish together and stuff. So I, I,the first memory trick I came up with uses this sentence because it's all A's. So Aardvark is our friend and it's all A's. ëThe arrows affected Aardvark .í And 'affected'
it down. But 'affect' is usually a verb and 'effect' is usually a noun. So Aardvark is a character in my book. Aardvark and Squiggly are buddies and they fish together and stuff. So I, I,the first memory trick I came up with uses this sentence because it's all A's. So Aardvark is our friend and it's all A's. ëThe arrows affected Aardvark .í And 'affected' is a verb in that sentence. The arrows are taking an action on Aardvark . They're affecting him. And you can see that it's a verb by substituting other verbs and they work in the sentence,
is a verb in that sentence. The arrows are taking an action on Aardvark . They're affecting him. And you can see that it's a verb by substituting other verbs and they work in the sentence, that's a little trick I often use. If I don't know what kind of word to use, I'll substitute similar words and see if it makes sense. So the arrows affected aardvark . The arrows hit Aardvark . They poked Aardvark . And they annoyed Aardvark . Those are all verbs. So if you can remember that sentence, you can compare it to a sentence you're trying to write and see
Aardvark . They poked Aardvark . And they annoyed Aardvark . Those are all verbs. So if you can remember that sentence, you can compare it to a sentence you're trying to write and seeif it's kinda like that sentence. And that's one way to, to choose the right word and remember that 'affected', the verb, starts with an 'A' because the arrows affected Aardvark . Now a second memory trick that some people seem to like better is 'affect' is for verbs and verbs are actions. And both 'affect' and 'action' start with the letter A. And you
laughter] So it's a made up example but there are instances where you need a serial comma to avoid confusion and often it's when the last things in your list could be paired in some way. We'll talk about ëlessí and ëfewerí. This is a commonly, commonly confused words. So this is Aardvark again. As I said, he likes to fish. 'Less' is for things that can't be counted. And 'fewer' is for things that can be counted. So water can't be counted. I mean a glass of water you could say 'We have fewer
And of course it won't, not in a trillion years, it won't. Coaches, and princes, and frogs, and us, and aardvarks , and dinosaurs are all much too complicated to happen by chance. So how did they happen?
know some of you think that ëcause a lot of people think a run-on sentence is just a really long sentence. But a run-on sentence is actually when you join two main clauses without proper punctuation. And they can be hard to read. So, they can be short. They can be really short. So you say, 'I like pizza Joe went to Domino's.' 'Squiggly cried Aardvark yelled.' 'Beth went to a yoga class Ben came along.' So these are all run-on sentences even though they're really quite short. What they need is, what they need is a something