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Affect / Effect - Exercise 3

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. How will the rainy weather (   ) your plans for the day?

2. This financial crisis could negatively (   ) your child's educational experience.

3. Hooting owls can create an eerie (   ).

4. The loud noise from the motor (   ) my hearing for days.

5. Nothing you say can (   ) my current mood.

6. Mel's giggle in church (   ) a reaction from his mother.

7. Adding powder to the water (   ) the water's color.

8. The (   ) of your words was immediate: everyone stopped talking.

9. During that historical era, many people thought that human actions could (   ) the planet's weather.

10. Your departure created (   ) that we didn't expect.

             

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