The phrase "commonplace questions" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to questions that are ordinary, typical, or mundane in nature. Example: The job interview was going smoothly until the interviewer suddenly asked some unexpected, commonplace questions that caught the applicant off guard.
And yet for all of Barthelme's admirable focus on the commonplace, the question that initially animates one's reading of "The Law of Averages" is whether the author will ever lavish the same tenderness he shows for, say, asphalt on people.
Here members--from psychologists to computer scientists to physiologists--debate theories, review books, and pose questions commonplace to highbrow.
It is commonplace to pose questions such as 'Do you want us to do everything?' and 'Would you want to go on life support?' without any further explanation of what exactly is involved, what can and cannot be achieved, what the burdens may be, what the likelihood of achieving the goals is, what the impact on quality of life may be, and what the alternative treatment options are.
My memory of late middle school and high school is that sexual comments, jokes and gestures pretty much defined the experience, and quickly became so commonplace that the question of "welcome" was moot.
What makes the current situation seem mildly appalling is that it's so commonplace no one even questions it anymore.
Many claims to epistemic privilege on behalf of particular perspectives with respect to certain questions are commonplace and uncontroversial.
It is a commonplace admonition that constitutional questions are to be avoided in favor of statutory resolution.
Sweeping statements about the utility of NGS to answer previously intractable questions are commonplace in systematics journals.
After Sept. 11, the question became commonplace, directed, in a hostile way, at girls from New Jersey, men in turbans, anyone from South Asia or the Arabian peninsula.
