Commensurate With: Standard Pattern
Commensurate With: Standard Pattern records the directly documented Cambridge construction and keeps the guidance bounded to the evidenced complement pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Cambridge documents “commensurate with” for something suitable or corresponding in amount, degree, or quality to what is being considered.
Key details
Choose the right form
| Meaning / situation | Form / construction | Decision |
|---|---|---|
| matching appropriately in amount, degree, or quality | commensurate with + complement | Use the documented “with” construction. |
| editing a comparison statement | commensurate with | Check that the two things are being related on a meaningful scale. |
Quick tests
Meaning-and-complement test
Does the sentence mean that one thing corresponds suitably in amount, degree, or quality to another?
If yes: Use “commensurate with.”
If no: If that relationship is not what you mean, choose a more direct adjective rather than changing the preposition mechanically.
Examples
The fee should be commensurate with the work required.
“With” links the fee to the scale of the work.
Responsibilities should be commensurate with the role.
The construction relates two things in degree or scope.
Do not turn one documented complement into a universal ban on every other nearby wording.
The guide stays bounded to the evidenced construction.
Further guidance
Construction
Cambridge documents commensurate with for something that is suitable or corresponding in amount, degree, or quality when compared with something else.
Style Boundary
This page records the directly supported commensurate-with construction without inventing an unsupported competing preposition.
Sources and evidence
Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.
- commensurate with something — Cambridge Dictionary (opens in a new tab)Cambridge University Press · Cambridge dictionary evidence for the adjective construction commensurate with something.