Confusables: Effective, Efficient, Sensible and Sensitive Exercise

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1. Those tablets are really effective. My headache is much better now.
2. The postal service is not as efficient as the telephone service.
3. That idea has been dead for years.
4. So far 50 people have died in the fighting.
5. She was standing among a crowd of children.
6. I think we are making a big mistake.
7. She has got longer hair than I have.
8. It was such good soup that we couldn’t stop drinking it.
9. When I was twelve, I already knew that I wanted to be a scientist.
10. Have you got a cold cream for sensitive skin?
11. “I want to buy that car.” “Be sensible, my dear. We haven’t got that much money.”
12. It is not my policy to believe everything I hear.