The phrase "affects the meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how a particular element, such as a word or phrase, influences the interpretation or significance of a text.
Example: "The choice of words in the poem significantly affects the meaning, altering the reader's emotional response."
Alternatives: "influences the interpretation" or "shapes the significance".
Next time you look at a still life, think about where the artist positioned themselves, how this influenced their use of space within the painting, and how this affects the meaning of the objects.
Organized by Kristina Van Dyke, another doctoral candidate in African art at the university, the show reverses a pet exhibition theme of recent years: rather than asking how context affects the meaning of traditional African objects, Ms. Van Dyke explores ways in which objects shape their environment.
Content A change which affects the meaning of the text.
Rev. 98, 708 729) called the interactive context (which affects the meaning, or the interpretation, of the target event) in contrast to the independent context (which does not interfere with the meaning-based interpretation of the target event).
Think about how the breaks between words or lines affects the meaning of the poem.
This is what especially riles his critics: the notion that the shifting enthusiasms of foreign judges could affect the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.
The resulting pitch changes can affect the meaning of the sentence as a whole, or the meaning of the individual words.
The reader comes away with little palpable appreciation of what the different versions suggest about Shakespeare's larger philosophical vision or how variations in language affect the meaning of the actual plays.
It probably helps that Beale doesn't overly respect the play's rhetoric, where all the abstract nouns (truth, beauty, honour) could quite easily be swapped around without affecting the meaning of any speech.
Others consider it a particle even though, as a rule, the point of particles is precisely that they can't stand alone; they exist to affect the meaning of other words.
