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Dipsik Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

"Effectively" to mean both "efficiently" and "in effect" ?

Hi everyone,
I'm quite curious whether it's possible to devise a sentence in which the word "effectively" can mean both "efficiently" and "in effect".

Many thanks!
Lenny
  

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OK—give it a try, Lenny, and then we'll check your effort.
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Well, I thought of sentences like this one:
Many people are effectively working without any instruments.

Still, I have always thought that when used to mean "efficiently", "effectively" is normally placed in front of the lexical verb, while in the other sense ("in effect"), it is placed after the verb. Then there is the meaning of the whole sentence, of course. It needs to soun
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Many people are effectively working without any instruments.-- in effect
Many people are working effectively without any instruments.-- efficiently

You have the meanings reversed, I think (and the meanings are not set in stone), but both sound 'real' and we really need further context to nail down the meaning. Nevertheless, you have brought u
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