Sentence examples for an incorrect use from inspiring English sources

"Because there seems to be some doubt about the use of the apostrophe, we are taking the liberty of drawing your attention to an incorrect use".

The Oxford English Dictionary yields three possibilities: "deviation from a normal standard or type"; "that which is abnormal – irregularity, a crime"; and "excess in magnitude (an incorrect use)".

Cash was forced to backtrack on the claims, saying at the press conference that there "may have been an incorrect use of the wording" and accepting that volunteers could fight fires before professionals were present.

An argument may be fallacious in three ways: in its material content, through a misstatement of the facts; in its wording, through an incorrect use of terms; or in its structure (or form), through the use of an improper process of inference.

The authors indicated that an incorrect use of the underlying distribution would lead to false results.

Our study and the analyzed ones indicate suboptimal treatment of migraine patients with triptans and also an incorrect use in some patients (triptan abusers, elderly).

35 Hence, the relatively high prevalence of unobstructed coronary arteries in women versus men undergoing DCA may reflect a differing underlying aetiology rather than an exaggerated incorrect use of the MI diagnosis in women.

The RSA enabled detection of a generalised incorrect use of the pumps in the first study period.

Gray et al studied a group of 72 subjects (aged 50 87 years) and found that decreased hand strength (measured with a dynamometer) was an independent predictor for incorrect use of a pressurized MDI.

We excluded data from a further one intervention centre and one control centre, as in both centres more than 70% of patients' records missed one or more data items as a result of incorrect use of the system.

A natural thought here is that semantic rules effect a distinction between (semantically) correct and incorrect use of an expression.