The phrase "affect tone" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a misunderstanding or misphrasing, as "affect" is typically used as a verb and does not naturally pair with "tone" in this context. An example could be: "The way you speak can greatly affect the tone of the conversation."
Alternatives: "influence tone" or "impact tone."
This version isn't meant to depress you (though it might), but rather to show that switching to a minor key can affect tone in a major way.
However, although maternal care influences contextual fear conditioning, it does not affect tone fear conditioning, either in terms of acquisition or extinction (Bagot et al. 2009).
Band directors will tell you that crossed legs negatively affect tone.
They don't affect tone at all and are just for looks.[1] However a better quality riser, the short "chimney" that attaches the lip plate to the head joint, does improve tone.
His affecting tone swelled with the eloquence of the human voice.
Point of view affects tone, with the third person seeming more objective and hard-boiled and the first person more up close and personal.
Charles Bradley has plenty of talent and possesses the sort of enviably timeless soul voice that has the affecting tone of someone who has seen how hard life can be.
Mr. Daniels is one of the few countertenors with the power and stamina to carry an evening (even a short one, in this 90-minute rendering of the 1762 Vienna version of the opera) in a house as big as the Met, and he rose to his arias in fine fashion, with strong, clear and affecting tone.
Adjustment to these measurements is one method of affecting tone color.
Telcagepant did not affect basal tone, hence speaking against CGRP tone in the resting or precontracted MCA.
One tone can also affect neighbouring tones' pronunciation through a series of complex rules.Consonants are more complex.
