The phrase "affect as if" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where someone is pretending or behaving in a certain way, but it is better to clarify the intended meaning.
Example: "He tends to affect as if he knows everything, but in reality, he is still learning."
Alternatives: "pretend as though" or "act as if".
Sometimes he uses a mock-ceremonial affect, as if he were playing a particularly pompous version of Chopin's Funeral March; but what he's getting at is more subtle.
He ate dutifully, but without affect, as if some inner computer chip were responsible for the opening and closing of his lips and the gentle modulations of his throat.
Despite some pop-cultural name-dropping, and odd evocations of humanness attached like sticky notes to the surface of the drama (Ghost telling his son to stop the video games and do his homework, for instance, indicating that he's a good dad), the show has a curiously featureless affect, as if the slickness of the production extended to the characters themselves.
Perinatal depression, however, can affect as many as 20percentt (which, if you look at my waiting room on any given day, is a lot of women!).
NBC parent General Electric would be affected as well, especially if it gains the media assets of Vivendi Universal, as it has been attempting.
The risk here is that if you miss a mortgage payment, their credit will be affected as well as yours ― and if you stop paying entirely, the bank will come after them.
Prosecutors portrayed Mr. Williams as being so sleep deprived that his reflexes were affected as if he had been intoxicated.
Whereas Ms. Rainer's dancers used to have a no-nonsense briskness, the White Oak dancers looked affected, as if they were fashion models striving terribly hard to appear casual.
The geriatric mannerisms -- the tremor in the voice, the shortness of breath -- seem affected, as if he might throw them off any second, like the oddly biblical-looking coat he wears for his entrance.
He said you would have to be made of stone not to be affected, as if their plight had nothing to do with the government of which he is the deputy prime minister.
Mosses are one of Earth's primeval plants, and to see this scant example dance back from the dead was strangely affecting, as if I were holding a 450-million-year-old life force in my hand — which I was.
