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[Bulsajo]

Which do you (or would you) use?

Predominant or Predominate?

Example: The _______________ use of this building is office space.

[plokiju]

I hope your on the predominant side.

[the_beaver]

predominant is the adjective

predominate is the verb

In your example example, predominant is correct.

[Eunoia]

[Bulsajo]

I was trying convince a co-worker that it should be predominant and pulled up to Merriam-Webster's site and was shocked to see that predominate CAN also be used as an adjective.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=predominate
So I'm now shifting my argument from definitions to 'common usage', hence the poll.

[plokiju]

Me brain no workee all the thyme.
I know the difference but my fingers are faster than my mind. I swear, I only make these mistakes typing. I remember once, instead of 'I,' I wrote 'eye' because my eye had been bothering me. Maybe my fingers are dyslexic or something but for pointing out of my mistake I stick my tongue out at thee. :p

I'm at hagwon, no one would notice. Half of the sentences in our textbooks start with 'And' or 'But.' Made in Korea, I'm sure.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

What I want to know is if it's "on the weekend" (American English) or "at the weekend" (English English). The battle still rages.

Sparkles*_*

[tzechuk]

[Flossie]

What about 'blahblah happened Monday' as opposed to 'blahblah happened on Monday'? I notice no 'on' regularly on CNN. Is this an Americanism?

[tomato]

If my memory serves me correctly, -ant is the present participle, equivalent to -ing in a Germanic word.
-ate is the passive suffix, equivalent to -ed in a Germanic word.

So predominant would mean "predominating," whereas
predominate would be "predominated."

[Kwangjuchicken]

[krats1976]

[sheba]

How about "In"?

In the weekend...

I never use 'at' or 'on' in this case.

When talking about specific days I use "on".
On Monday.
On Saturday.
On Thursday and Friday.

[Swiss James]

[thorin]