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[Laird]

Here's a way to look at it, Steve001. You wrote:

Why is there no affect?

Now, we can ask which sort of words fit grammatically, and could grammatically replace, "affect" in that sentence.

For example, we could replace that word to come up with grammatical sentences such as:

"Why is there no tree?", or
"Why is there no colour?", or
"Why is there no sun?"

"Tree", "colour", and "sun" are nouns. They fit.

OK. Now, how about verbs? Let's pick some at semi-random and see whether they fit:

"Why is there no think?", or
"Why is there no feel?", or
"Why is there no pretend?"

They don't quite fit, do they? They're grammatically awkward.

Clearly, the right fit for your sentence is a noun, not a verb. And, as your link demonstrates, the noun form of effect/affect is "effect". Which is what you should have used.

Fair enough?