Answers to Practice Exercises: Affect and Effect

(a) Artificial sweeteners may affect the brain's perception of sugars.

(b) Large doses of artificial sweeteners may have an adverse effect on people.

(c) Low lying clouds have a cooling effect on the atmosphere.

(d) Divorce affects children as well as adults.

(e) "It is time to effect a revolution in female manners."
(Mary Wollstonecraft)

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