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Proactive disclosure Print version   | |  GSC Guide to Authors Adjectives
Grammar A sentence with only one or two adjectives or qualifying adverbs may be stronger than one overflowing with them:
This sentence is boring.
not This sentence is exceedingly long winded and very boring. The laboratory staff worked efficiently. not The laboratory staff did its utmost, and worked extremely well and very efficiently. Do not combine an abstract noun with an adjective when an adjective alone would do:
The grains are rounded.
not The grains are of a rounded shape.
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