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📚 Glossary Term

Cause and Effect

📖
Definition A relationship showing why something happened and what happened because of it.

🧒 In Simple Words

Cause and effect shows what made something happen and what happened next because of it.

📌 Example

Heavy rain was the cause, and flooding was the effect.

✏️ Use It in a Sentence

"We used cause and effect to explain why the river overflowed."

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