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Affect / Effect - Exercise 4

Direction: Choose the correct word in each sentence below. When you have finished, click on the "Check My Work" button to view the answers.

1. The bad weather (   ) Carrie's mood.

2. Painting the walls brown has produced a depressing (   ).

3. Smoking (   ) the heart.

4. The light from the bright lamp adversely (   ) my vision.

5. Great flooding was one (   ) of the heavy rains.

6. This quiz will not (   ) your final grade in the course.

7. One (   ) of deregulation will be a loss of control.

8. Only the company CEO can (   ) such a sweeping change.

9. The audience's laughter did not (   ) the speaker's calm demeanor.

10. The antibiotic had no (   ) on my sinus infection.

             

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