Grammar Test A Answer 16

16. The ethologist felt he was not bringing about the effect he wanted in the bonobo, so he lay down next to the young female, shed his shirt and pants, and tried to appear as if he needed grooming.


1) The word here is "effect," which is the noun form (unless you are talking about something like the "flat affect in his speech").

2) past tense for the verb "to lie" is "lay."