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No And here's your smoke to use your brought to

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you by damp weather Don't worry a little black moles

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never heard anyone alright which answer best fills in the

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blanks The damp weather had poorly effected her health right

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near potential answers affect affect Okay the effect versus ofac

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debate what's the difference it's easier than you might think

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effect with an e is a noun affect within a

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is a verb remember a is for action You hear

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that from bruce willis A lot another pneumonic that might

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help us is the arrows affected atilla the effect was

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popping kinda gross the underlying portion of the sentence has

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to be a verb because we need to know what

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the damp weather did this girl's health hopefully it's not

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contagious now and tell us what things are not what

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they do the on ly a verb can give us

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the action we need while a is for action Right

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Right So let's throw away any option that starts with

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an e we're looking atyou choices be indeed now we're

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left with a affect and she affected both options begin

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with a so now it's down to verb tense affect

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is in the present tense and affected is in the

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past How do we know which way to go While

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the helping verb had shows us the way had let

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us know that sea is the best answer Helping verb

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signals that were in the past perfect tense and the

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past perfect can't be perfect without a past tense verb

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Where we kidding The past was never perfect every year

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