Welcome back to our ‘Commonly Confused Words’ series. We hope this series has been helpful and informative for you. If this is your first time reading a ‘Commonly Confused Words’ article, we encourage you to read our earlier instalments on practice and practise; alternate and alternative; their, they’re and there; lay and lie; and affect…

Affect, effect or impact? Good writing is effective, but great writing affects readers. Or does it effect readers? Can it impact them? Let’s try to reduce the confusing effects of grammar … First, consider the following definitions: affect (verb): to act on; produce an effect or a change in effect (noun): that which…