"the correct usage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific way of using a word, phrase, or larger grammatical structure. For example, "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the correct usage of 'irony' is to describe the contrast between what is expected and what actually happens."
Miss O'Connor was teaching a grammar lesson about the correct usage of "between you and me".
The solution, therefore, isn't so much about aid but the correct usage money.
Dear Dave I would love to know the correct usage of affect and effect.
As Stanley Kubrick taught us in nineteen sixty-eight, the correct usage had to be "two thousand and one".
Each student in the class had to present a sentence with the correct usage, and Miss O'Connor greeted Bruce's initial offering as lame.
While editing Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, the book that many writers and editors turn to as the correct usage bible, I had de Saussure's maxim constantly in mind.
The prefix "lord" is ordinarily used as a less formal alternative to the full title (whether held by right or by courtesy) of marquess, earl, or viscount and is always so used in the case of a peerage baron (particularly in the peerage of Scotland, where it remains the only correct usage at all times).
Though bad writing has always been with us, the rules of correct usage are the smallest part of the problem.
These results underscore the importance of correct usage of the ecosan toilets if the desired results of stabilizing and sanitizing sludge are to be achieved.
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.
This study protocol acknowledges that guidelines can be central to the prudent and correct usage of palliative or therapeutic sedation in the management of unbearable symptoms and refractory suffering, experienced by patients already facing death.
