The adjective "new" is the most common in advertising ... "good," "better" and "best" were also near the top of the list, according to Leech. On its own, "good" is a very general term that ...

In a letter to one of his students, Mark Twain advised: “When you catch an adjective, kill it ... but here we’ll focus on one common common mistake: the comma splice.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The meanings of a few adjectives change according to whether they are before the noun or after the noun in the sentence.