An exercise to help you choose between efficient and effective

These two adjectives (and their equivalent adverbs) are so difficult to use correctly.

I hope you have had a chance to read my vocabulary sheet.

In today’s exercise, you are going to practise making sentences using either efficient or effective.

Efficient or effective?

NOUNSVERBS
communicationswant
distribution networkdeliver
enginemake
use ofimplement
resourcesuse
attacktake
solutionsbe responsible for
argumentbe
actionhelp
policydevelop
strategyprove
speechdiscovery
processbecome
administrationappear
technique
transport system
drugs
marketing tools
postal service

Above is your smorgasbord of options for creating sentences. Your task is to pick one noun and one verb, and craft five sentences (or ten, if you’re feeling keen). Each sentence must contain either the word effectiveor the word efficient, depending which one is appropriate in context.

For example, your sentence might be:

The UK does not have a very efficient transport system.

Of course you can make your sentences far longer and more elaborate than that!

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