commensurate

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I came across this sentence:"Does the play commensurate with the book?"Isn't commensurate an adj.? According to all the dicionaries I looked in it's an adj. but the book (just an Israeli-SAT preparation book) says it's a verb.Help me please out.

Pieanne · Accepted Answer

"Commensurate (with)" is an adjective. I've googled and foud 10 examples of "doesn't commensurate". Maybe it's beginning to be used as a verb?

Davkett · Answer

I've never seen it used as a verb, neither do I see it listed as a verb in the dictionary.

Yes, now I got 13 examples from Google. There must be at least a dozen (baker's dozen) individuals who like it that way. Does not commensurate with me...yet.

Maverick88 · Answer

Maybe they're just mistaken and use in ungrammatiacally?

Pieanne · Answer

"Does" instead of "is"? Well, who knows? Maybe...

Rotter · Answer

I have often heard the following:

Your salary will commensurate with skills and experience.

When advertising for jobs, people tend to write the above.

Pieanne · Answer

It looks as if it's a new use: "commensurate" as a verb.

Maverick88 · Answer

Interesting what will happen if I try to update my teacher about this in a test...

Davkett · Answer

I wouldn't go so far as to say that 'commensurate' doesn't deserve extended usage as a verb, but I don't think seeing it that way 13 times on Google, means that it has been legitimized as such.  Especially when 'commensurate with'  has 2,650,000 hits.

MrPedantic · Answer

I get 8,390 hits for 'comensurate'.

So while we're turning it into a verb, we may as well change the spelling as well...

(Though no doubt there are examples of 'commensurate' as a verb buried deep in the bowels of the OED.)

MrP

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