It doesn't effect you

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[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting, I guess the "had no effect on" is a verb phrase which contains a noun, or something like that? The verb is "had" and the object is "effect"

I've never been very good at defining types of grammar, there's always weird exceptions like this

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Grammar is awesome. It makes english a great tool for establishing social caste, and the truly posh get taught a whole level more intricate language use than the rest of us :D

I think you are right. the "had no <X> on" is the verby bit, and the <X> is flavour text. I generally throw in the words 'impress/impression' instead of 'affect/effect' to see which one to use.