Communication
find common ground
discover shared agreement
To find common ground is to discover an interest or opinion that you share with someone else.
Hear it in real life
You two seem very different.
We are, but we found common ground through music.
We found common ground over our love of old detective films.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: find a common ground
Say: find common ground
Use “common ground” without “a” when you mean shared interests or agreement.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
find common ground with someone; found common ground over something
Your turn: say it out loud
We found common ground over our love of old detective films.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
find common ground
discover shared agreement
“We found common ground over our love of old detective films.”
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