Originally Posted by
Venecia 
Effect is a noun. Sobriety has had a good effect on me.
Affect is nearly always a verb. I have been positively affected by SR.
Ah, very good, that makes sense to me- so it is always a verb, that will stick in my head.
I should know this, but I dropped out of school early and got into uni as a mature student at 27, so I missed a lot.