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My grammar bugbear-that-makes-me-want-to-kill-people: affect/effect.
I have convinced myself that the mnemonic I have for that is unreliable. I talk myself around in circles and then just use whichever one I started with, or completely reword to avoid the problem.
I swear the real reason I keep a dictionary on my desk is that I have to look this one up Every.Single.Time.
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All the grammar rules that annoy buffistas are things I struggle with... Things with which I struggle. Please continue to correct my grammar. I want to improve.
Even looking it up leaves me confused!
Eta: I have also given up on lay/lie, once you get into the different tenses, forget it, I'm not going to know what's right. I just set things down and stretch out on the couch where the cat comes and curls up on me.
I've got its/it's down and I know 's is not plural. (That one bugs the hell out of me.) It's funny that people can write things I find annoying while I turn around and annoy someone else.
"Lay" is transitive; "lie" is intransitive. (Although it gets weird where "lay" is the past tense of "lie." WTF, English? Branch out a little!)
Transitive is the one that takes object? So "To Lay Me Down" and "Now I lay me down to sleep" are useful to remember and not just there to confuse me. Thank you!
Oh, dear, I am suddenly sure we have had this conversation before complete with revelation. Remember it this time, brain!
Affect is the verb. Also a noun in mental health. Umm. That turned out less helpful than I had hoped. But effect is NOT a verb. Evah. (right?)
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Transitive is the one that takes object? So "To Lay Me Down" and "Now I lay me down to sleep" are useful to remember and not just there to confuse me. Thank you!
Right. You lay the book on the table. You lie down. The confusing part is as follows:
Q: What did you do yesterday? A: I was so lazy, I lay on the couch all day.
That just sounds wrong. But it's not.
This affects me in a strange, which causes a very odd effect?
But effect is NOT a verb. Evah. (right?)
Wrong. As a verb, "effect" means "to bring about." Like, "In her job, smonster effects change in the way students recycle."