Yes. An acoustic-electric guitar plugs into an amplifier the
same way a regular electric guitar does.
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The benefits of an electric guitar amplifier are the increased
energy content to the signal the guitar produces and the available
tone controls. The amplifier is a staple of guitarists for those
reasons.
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it is a guitar that uses electricity to make the amplifier work,
si they decided to call it the "electric guitar"