Modifies a noun

• restoration: It has been the subject of a slow but painstaking restoration over the last twenty years.

• reconstruction: Today the scars are still evident as the painstaking reconstruction goes on.

• scholarship: The book is a work of painstaking German scholarship, at the same time readable and not without humor.

• attention: My work is characterized by painstaking attention to detail.

• effort: Yet concrete evidence is yet to surface despite painstaking efforts being undertaken by the government.

• investigation: The painstaking investigation led to a Glasgow criminal called David Kelly.

Modifying Another Word

• very: The discussions which had taken place last week had been very painstaking.

• so: Bowler also liked the fact that they were sitting the original seats, so painstaking revived.

• typically: Stephen's solution was typically painstaking, but extremely effective.

• only: It is only painstaking research in recent years that has restored to us this forgotten focus of rural English Catholicism.