Not that I am afraid of myself, but I dread other people’s remarks.” I am glad of one thing, that he comes alone because we shall see the less of him. “ I do assure you, that the news does not affect me either with pleasure or pain. In contrast, the speaker in this excerpt is assuring us that their emotional state is not ‘affected’ negatively or positively: He never seemed for a moment to think, But how does this affect me? His integrity seemed to Mrs Ramsay quite admirable. ‘ Let us enjoy what we do enjoy,’ he said. Literary Examplesįor some highbrow context, let’s take this quotation from Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse: To put a fine point on it, ‘affect’ is usually something that happens to the subject or object of a sentence.
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