Modifying Another Word

• currently: VR supports the approach to learning which is currently predominant: constructivism.

• so: The psychic end is so predominant that you forget to ask about the muscle end.

• increasingly: He set out the guidelines for pensions reform in the millenium, emphasizing the importance of sound policies on this increasingly predominant issue.

• equally: In Isaac's history the feminine element is equally predominant.

• now: Whites of Abingdon I visited Henley last Monday and Whites are now predominant on the local services.

Preposition: at

• time: Some of them were interviewed and explained which idea was predominant at that time in the orientation of the studies.

Modifies a noun

• pathogen: Influenza A and B viruses are the predominant viral pathogens.

• paradigm: In this country, the predominant paradigm, positivism, is based around scientific inquiry.

• mode: We should aim for public transport to become the predominant mode for travel beyond cycling distance.

• theme: These themes are useful here in that they were also predominant themes in the films of the period.

• species: In a previous geologic era on Earth [ the Paleozoic ] , the predominant species was this little crab called the Trilobite.

• mood: The predominant mood of the working class of the 1860s, unlike that of the 1840s, was reformist not revolutionary.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The black areas can become predominant giving a black ladybird with a few red spots.

• remain: This strategy has a number of strands but its underlying theme ' car bad, bicycle good ' remains predominant.

• emerge: Either the proletariat would proceed to nationalize the entire economy, or inevitably the capitalist system would emerge predominant.

• appear: If one social class appears predominant, then other classes, particularly those below, may be resentful and critical of their efforts.

Preposition: in

• area: Wire and messenger are predominant in rear assembly areas.

• north: Later, the two other deities became more important, Vishnu becoming predominant in the north and Shiva in the south.

• world: Database systems are predominant in the world of IT and continue to demand more complex data structures as applications get increasingly sophisticated.