Sentence examples for usage guides from inspiring English sources
Usage guides have their uses.
Nearly all of them are grammar or usage guides.
Usage guides say that if you can substitute "and" for the comma it belongs there.
Major newspapers are publishing their internal usage guides (and why doesn't NBC update its out-of-print 1991 pronunciation guide?).
"ADMAU," he wrote, was "as good as Follett's…and the handful of other great American usage guides of the century".
In fact, so many people now use they in the old singular way that dictionaries and usage guides are taking a critical look at the prohibition against it.
Consult a modern usage guide or a dictionary with usage notes.
Our other hallowed usage guide, The Times's stylebook, advises us to lowercase "bible" when used in this figurative sense.
Mr. Jenkins's columns were the basis of his book, "That or Which, and Why: A Usage Guide for Thoughtful Writers and Editors," published by Routledge this year.
"Word Court," by Barbara Wallraff Harcourtt, $24, and whatever became of Brace? I'd like to see a firm of castaway founders, like Brace, Roebuck, Pearce, Fenner & Beane).: Here is a usage guide in question-answer form by the Atlantic magazine columnist and longtime line editor.
The system consists of two major parts: a usage guide and database.
