Xander ,'Empty Places'
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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."
I LOVE GEEKING OUT ABOUT LANGUAGE!
Ahem.
Carry on.
"Lay" is transitive; "lie" is intransitive.
Transitive is the one that takes object?
See, this helps me not at all. I can never remember the rules, I'm what I like to call (err, starting right now) an instinctive grammarian. I just know what I know - which makes the ones I don't know hard to figger. (Thankfully, lay/lie is one I just get). My instincts keep falling down on affect/effect, though.
All the grammar rules that annoy buffistas are things I struggle with... Things with which I struggle.
As a dyslexic person, I should not be as RAAAAH as I am about grammar. My spelling and sentence construction are... interesting. The fact that I happen to 'feel' my way through grammar fairly successfully is not anything that I achieved for myself.
I have trouble with the actual rule for affect/effect. I just know which one looks right and which one looks wrong. (You would not believe the grammar-rule-learning work I had to put in before I could teach linguistics.)
That's the problem with effect and affect. One's normally a noun and one's a verb, except when one's a verb and one's a noun.
One's normally a noun and one's a verb, except when one's a verb and one's a noun.
Quick, someone write a sentence that uses all four possibilities!
Wrong. As a verb, "effect" means "to bring about." Like, "In her job, smonster effects change in the way students recycle."
But but but.. isn't that a pretty recent usage? B/c I hates it, precious.
"The effect of the effected change affected my affect"?