Quote Originally Posted by zencentury View Post
The residents were affected (by the decision to build Skyline Drive.)

As a verb affect means “to act on” or “to move” (His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept)

The effect was that they were relocated.

The noun effect means “result, consequence”: (the serious effects of the oil spill.)

At least I think thats right.
Thank you zen! I knew I could count on y'all. That's what happens when I post after a glass of wine. (it was red, do I get extra credit for that?)