What's the Word Wednesday - A Quiz and Chance to Win a Prize

Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the correct word.  The first five people to get all correct will receive a free copy of  the award winning book, Storee Wryter Gets a Dog, the story of a young writer who agrees to train her new puppy to be a therapy dog.

Reading that book had a peculiar _______________ on Evelyn.
affect
effect

 _________ going to help me with this?
Whose
Who's
I'm afraid she's going to _____________ her grandmother's wedding band.
loose
lose

 My mother has been _______________ in bed all morning.
lieing
 laying
 lying

It's usually hotter __________ this in July.
than
then

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Your writing prompt as part of this week's What's the Word Wednesday is to use one of the sentences from the quiz as the opening line of a story.