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Affect / Effect - Exercise 1

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. I will try not to let his words (   ) me.

2. Bridge washouts are often an (   ) of floods.

3. He tried in vain to (   ) a different opinion in the crowd.

4. Jim was seriously (   ) by his cousin's death.

5. Weather conditions (   ) many people's moods.

6. Did the committee's vote (   ) your position on the matter?

7. Crossing wire A to wire B will produce an explosive (   ) .

8. The major (   ) of the storm was devastation everywhere.

9. The politician wanted to (   ) a change in the system.

10. That terrible accident had a profound (   ) on my driving.

             

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