Sentence examples for rules of usage from inspiring English sources

Half a century of rules of usage and principles of composition.

Linguists and lexicographers have long known that many of the alleged rules of usage are actually superstitions.

My goal was to use the answer to this question to distinguish bogus rules of usage from defensible ones.

Like many dubious rules of usage, the less-fewer distinction has a smidgen of validity as a pointer of style.

Rules of usage are well worth mastering, but they pale in importance behind principles of clarity, style, coherence, and consideration for the reader.

"Seven rules of usage, 11 principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of words and expressions commonly misused – that was the sum and substance of Professor Strunk's work".

The easiest way to distinguish a legitimate rule of usage from a grandmother's tale is unbelievably simple: look it up.

But Good acknowledges the overriding rule of usage: "You'll go further in life by violating the rule of pronoun case and saying, 'It was me".' Now to his title, using the preposition for: a noun that is the object of a preposition requires the objective case (like me, him, her), and so the correct formal use is also the common usage: "A Grammar Book for You and Me".

They believe that the rules of correct usage are nothing more than the secret handshake of the ruling class, designed to keep the masses in their place.

It has vocabulary and rules of correct usage.

Though bad writing has always been with us, the rules of correct usage are the smallest part of the problem.