The Board of Directors at Symac plc has today, with regret, accepted the resignation of Donald Carter, Executive Production Director. Mr Carter has asked that his resignation take effect immediately in order to facilitate a relocation for family reasons.
Kevin Brown, his deputy, will take up the position of Executive Production Director. Mr Carter has been with Symac for 15 years, the last 8 in his current position. He has made a big contribution to the big growth and big results at Symac in the last few years and will be greatly missed. His big involvement in the restructuring of production processes at the flagship Ilford plant set the industry standard thereafter. Symac believes that, in Kevin Brown, the company has a very good successor to this very important position.

Can you think of better adjectives to go in place of the ones in italic print?

Look at the following adjectives and try to decide which is the best partner for each of the nouns following the italic words.

• key  exceptional      positive   invaluable   key major  worthy

 By replacing the adjectives in italics with those listed above, the following text is greatly improved. Why? Mr Carter has been with Symac for 15 years, the last 8 in his current position.
He has made an invaluable contribution to the exceptional growth and positive results at Symac in the last few years and will be greatly missed. His major
involvement in the restructuring of production processes at the flagship Ilford plant set the industry standard thereafter. Symac believes that, in Kevin Brown, the company has a worthy successor to this key position.