Modifies a noun

• eminence: Alport Hill is a commanding eminence, said to be the highest point in South Derbyshire.

• officer: In practice, a commanding officer may or may not have seen these orders.

• presence: Henry Eliot was a commanding presence on the stage.

• height: The commanding heights of the economy would be publicly owned.

• position: England are in a commanding position going into day three of the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford.

• view: A second floor room gave a commanding view over most of the site.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Her broad sword is held high and she looks very commanding.

• so: The organ solos were just great loud, moody and so commanding.

• yet: His voice has a special sound; tender in romantic passages yet commanding when it has to be.

• quite: Again, had there never been an original movie, Schreiber would probably appear quite commanding.

• truly: Eriq La Salle plays Peter Benton, a truly commanding and ambitious surgeon who seems to only care about himself and his work.

• increasingly: The figures came over like giants: Owen Teale was an increasingly commanding Macbeth, Vivien Parry, an impassioned Lady Macbeth.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Her broad sword is held high and she looks very commanding.