commonplace

Converse of object

• become: News of ' transfer ballots ' will become commonplace.
• seem: Carp to over 30 pounds, Barbel to 15 pounds plus and chub to 6 pounds seem commonplace.

Adjective modifier

more: Live shows became more commonplace with the String Band headlining rather than supporting other artists.

Modifies a noun

• occurrence: And yet, in the history of our nation, it is a commonplace occurrence.
• book: The same extract has also been written into John Maxwell's commonplace book, with distinctive Scots spelling.
• usage: This is different from the commonplace usage meaning roughly 'you there ' .
• assumption: That poverty breeds disease is the commonplace assumption underlying this suggestion.
• observation: To experience this process of assessing young children, I was relying upon some commonplace observations.
• object: Expression was manifested in these essentially commonplace objects, transforming them into objects of great beauty.

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: Yet while road trip movies are fairly commonplace nowadays, few have been done as memorably as this.
• increasingly: In-house sales are assured; chips are increasingly commonplace in the electronic devices the Japanese company produces.
• almost: Nowadays sex seems to have become almost commonplace in Chinese life.
• relatively: Similar ideas are relatively commonplace in CBL and in the virtual laboratories of the natural and physical sciences.
• now: The use of creatine is now commonplace, with supplements widely available at a fraction of the original cost.
• quite: UFO encounters have become quite commonplace at this AEC site.

Infinitive complement

hear: However, it soon became commonplace to hear Robbie's cry of " slow down " .

Used with adjective complement

• become: Recently, the term, " text " has become commonplace in critical writing instead of film, movie, or even story.
• seem: But while its attempts to be original only serve to make it seem commonplace it is still a nice pub.

Preposition: in

• country: What it is is entirely commonplace in cattle country!
• today: This grim vista of a ruined part of the local environment is depressingly commonplace in today 's world.