What is the different use of the words Affected and Effected I always get confused with which one to use in situations?

Affect is a verb and effect is a noun. When you affect something, you produce an effect on it. Even in the passive voice, something would be affected, not effected.

There are certain situations where effect is used as a verb and situations where affect is used as a noun, but very few people ever have a need to use them that way, so unless you are already confident of your ability to use these words correctly, just treat as general the rule that effect is a noun and affect a verb.

If you feel the need to get fancy, however, here are the meanings of effect as a verb and affect as a noun. As a verb, effect means to execute, produce, or accomplish something; as a noun, affect is used primarily by psychologists to refer to feelings and desires as factors in thought or conduct.) Like he made dropped the glass to effect a change in the mood. versus He walked with a limping old man as an affect, to make people think he was really crippled.

I used to until I made myself figure out a way to remember.
Affect is the verb, which means action. A for Action. Action affects action.

Effect is the noun - a person, place, or thing. E is for effect and every THING.

Note: Effect can also function as a verb, used in the sense of building something - "He effected the difficult gymnastics move with ease."

Affected is a verb while effect is a noun. Affect is an influence on someone or something; For example His finacial problems affected the way he studied. While effect is a result; for example Patrcia stopped eating as, a result her body started showing the effects of prolonged malnutrition. Hope it helps.

I never mix them up and I am sometimes affected by the effect on me of others doing so. Or something

I know the difference but I sometimes mux them up anyway out of laziness and I annoy myself when I do so.

With due respect to those who have correctly noted that the difference lies in noun and verb distinctions, both words have noun and verb uses. Their answers are traditionally correct, but language does evolve.

The real differences are quite subtle and there is no hard and fast rule about which to use.

The principle difference in my understanding is in the roots of the word. Affect tend to be an emotional word as in "affection" or diseases of "affect."

Even that is not a good answer because the meanings are really quite similar.

It may go back to the original answers you received. Affect comes from a word meaning "to do," while "effect" speaks to the results.

Can you answer this one for me?

1) Patch back effected area with new hot asphalt.

2) Patch back affected area with new hot asphalt.

I say it's E, while MS Word wants me to us A.