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Affect vs. Effect: Fill-in-the-Gaps Exercise

This document provides a task that involves filling in the gaps of 45 sentences with either the word "affect" or "effect". The summary provides the key distinction between the words: - Affect is usually used as a verb meaning to produce a change in something or to have an emotional effect. Effect is usually used as a noun meaning a result or consequence. - Some examples that require "affect" include sentences about things having an impact, producing a change or impression, or exerting influence. - Examples requiring "effect" include sentences about a result, consequence, or impression being achieved. - The task tests the ability to distinguish between when to use "affect" and "effect" in different

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Affect vs. Effect: Fill-in-the-Gaps Exercise

This document provides a task that involves filling in the gaps of 45 sentences with either the word "affect" or "effect". The summary provides the key distinction between the words: - Affect is usually used as a verb meaning to produce a change in something or to have an emotional effect. Effect is usually used as a noun meaning a result or consequence. - Some examples that require "affect" include sentences about things having an impact, producing a change or impression, or exerting influence. - Examples requiring "effect" include sentences about a result, consequence, or impression being achieved. - The task tests the ability to distinguish between when to use "affect" and "effect" in different

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Task 1. Fill in the gaps with the words affect or effect.

Affect – to produce a change in sth; Effect – a result of a change


To have strong feelings; an impression someone wants to make
To attack (about the deseases);
To impress people

[Link] delay in delivery of materials will have a knock-on …………. throughout the production process.
[Link] new regulations come into …………. next month.
[Link] medicine started to take …………. after a few minutes.
[Link] this will not …………. the outcome of the talks.
[Link] laws from the 18th century are still in …………..
[Link] comment was intended to calm the situation but it had the opposite …………..
[Link] purpose of the lesson was to study the …………. of heat on metal.
[Link] air conditioning came on, to little …………..
[Link] did not seem unduly …………..
[Link] up smoking had a magical …………. on his stamina.
[Link] drug exerts a powerful …………. on the brain
[Link] had problems with mosquitoes, but this spray had the desired …………..
[Link] bank has cut interest rates with immediate …………..
[Link] class structure …………. people's attitudes and behaviour.
[Link] has been severely …………. by the war.
[Link] feel the …………. of alcohol more quickly than men.
17.I found that by adding white I could achieve the desired …………..
[Link] didn't seem to have suffered any ill …………. from his fall.
19.I wish he wouldn't …………. that ridiculous accent.
[Link] Davis and her husband were profoundly …………. by their experiences.
[Link] was no discernible …………. on cell growth.
[Link] border closure meant, in …………., that no trade took place between the countries.
23.I took the medicine with dramatic …………..
[Link]'s a policy that will have a chilling …………. on free speech.
[Link] type of audience will …………. what you say and how you say it.
[Link] are requested to deposit any valuable personal …………. at the hotel reception.
[Link] taxation has a disincentive …………..
[Link] soon will the …………. of the drug wear off?
[Link] death ………….him deeply
30.I am interested in documenting the …………. of international events on ordinary people.
[Link] uses animal sounds to startling …………. in her music.
[Link] is precisely the …………. I was aiming at.
[Link] deterrent …………. of the death penalty has long been questioned.
[Link] dramatic ………….was heightened by her black dress and dead white face.
[Link] opinions will not …………. my decision.
[Link] drug has well-documented inhibitory …………. on sexual function.
[Link] dry weather had an adverse …………. on the potato crops.
[Link] full …………. of the new tax have not yet been felt.
[Link] plague struck London again with devastating …………..
[Link] told us to go away, or words to that …………..
41.‘I feel really depressed.’ ‘The winter here has that …………. sometimes.’
[Link] her ordeal, she seems to have suffered no ill …………..
[Link]'s not always easy to distinguish between cause and …………..
[Link] stressed the beneficial …………. of exercise.
[Link] management changes had little or no …………. on output.

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