c_USAGE([ "-ful",1 ], "Where the amount held by a spoon, etc|, is used as a rough unit of" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "-ful",1 ], "measurement, the correct form is spoonful, etc|" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "-ize",1 ], "-ise is equally acceptable in British English|Certain words are, however, always" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "-ize",1 ], "In the U|S| and in Britain, -ize is the standard ending for many verbs, but" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "-ize",1 ], "spelt with -ise in both the U|S| and in Britain" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "-wise",1 ], "The addition of -wise to a noun as a replacement for a lengthier phrase (such" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "-wise",1 ], "and writers" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "-wise",1 ], "as as far as&eis concerned) is considered unacceptable by most careful speakers" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "Asian",1 ], "Asian is used in formal writing as a noun indicating a person from Asia| The" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "Asian",1 ], "use of the word Asiatic in this sense is regarded by some people as offensive" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"17th century (and not the 17th century a|d|)",3). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"Domini (in the year of Our Lord), but this is no longer general practice|b|c",8). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"Formerly the practice was to write a|d",4). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"born about 540 b|c|; the battle took place in the 4th century b|c",10). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"is only employed with specific yearshe died in 1621 a|d|, but he died in the",2). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"is used with both specific dates and indications of the periodHeraclitus was",9). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"is used, since this is already contained in the meaning of the Latin anno",7). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"preceding the date (a|d| 1621), and it is also strictly correct to omit in",5). c_USAGE([ "A|D|" ,1],"when a|d",6). c_USAGE([ "A|D|", 1], "In strict usage, a|d" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "Miss",1 ], "When reference is made to two or more unmarried women with the same surname," ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "Miss",1 ], "the Misses Smith is more formal than the Miss Smiths" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "Reverend",1 ], "Reverend with a surname alone (Reverend Smith)" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "Scotch",1 ], "In the north of England and in Scotland, Scotch is not used outside fixed" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "Scotch",1 ], "expressions such as Scotch whisky|The use of Scotch for Scots or Scottish is otherwise felt" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "Scotch",1 ], "to be incorrect, esp| when applied to persons" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "actual",1 ], "The excessive use of actual and actually should be avoided|They are" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "actual",1 ], "the play but did not enjoy it" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "actual",1 ], "unnecessary in sentences such as in actual fact, he is forty-two, and he did actually go to" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "advise",1 ], "Advise is often used in the same sense as inform: as we advised you in our" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "advise",1 ], "business correspondence| Careful users of English prefer inform, notify, or tell in" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "advise",1 ], "general English" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "advise",1 ], "last communication, the order is being dealt with|This use is accepted and common in" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "ago",1 ], "English|Ago should be followed by that: it was ten years ago that he wrote the novel" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "ago",1 ], "The use of ago with since is redundant and is therefore avoided in careful" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "ain't",1 ], "Although the interrogative form ain't I?? would be a natural contraction of" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "ain't",1 ], "English" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "ain't",1 ], "am not I??, it is generally avoided in spoken English and never used in formal" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "all-time",1 ], "All-time is an imprecise superlative and is avoided by careful writers as" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "all-time",1 ], "being superfluous" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "and/or",1 ], "And/or is not universally accepted as being appropriate in good usage outside" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "and/or",1 ], "legal and commercial contexts|It is never used by careful writers and speakers where" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "and/or",1 ], "or" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "around",1 ], "In adverbial and prepositional senses round is now regarded by most speakers" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "around",1 ], "and writers of British English as a less formal variant of around, although" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "around",1 ], "completely replaced round in these senses, except in a few fixed phrases such as all year" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "around",1 ], "historically it is the better established form| In American English, around has almost" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "around",1 ], "round" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "atomic weight",1 ], "Until 1961 atomic weights were based on the mass of an atom of oxygen-16| The" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "atomic weight",1 ], "carbon-12 atom is now the usual basis of calculations and relative atomic mass is the" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "atomic weight",1 ], "preferred term for the new atomic weights" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "between",1 ], "In careful usage, between is restricted to cases where only two objects," ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "between",1 ], "possibilities, etc|, are concerned" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "both",1 ], "Both is used to refer to two objects, persons, etc|, and should be avoided" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "both",1 ], "are both equal, however, do occur frequently in informal English" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "both",1 ], "as, equal, equally, alike, or together|Sentences such as they are both alike, they" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "both",1 ], "editions of the book were banned|Both is redundant when employed together with as well" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "both",1 ], "where a group of three or more is involved, as in both the preface and the two" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "centigrade",1 ], "Although still used in meteorology, centigrade, when indicating the Celsius" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "centigrade",1 ], "its possible confusion with the hundredth part of a grade" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "centigrade",1 ], "scale of temperature, is now usually avoided in other scientific contexts because of" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "centre",1 ], "To centre round is considered illogical by many writers and speakers, who" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "centre",1 ], "prefer the more precise phrase to centre on" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "classic",1 ], "The adjectives classic and classical can often be treated as synonyms, but" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "classic",1 ], "applied to that which is of the first rank, esp| in art and literature, as in" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "classic",1 ], "there are two contexts in which they should be carefully distinguished| Classic is" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "climax",1 ], "In formal English careful writers avoid the use of climax as a verb| The" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "climax",1 ], "phrase reach a climax is preferred" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "collective noun",1 ], "Collective nouns are usually used with singular verbs" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "commentate",1 ], "The verb commentate, derived from commentator, is sometimes used as a synonym" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "commentate",1 ], "for comment on or provide a commentary for| It is not yet fully accepted as" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "commentate",1 ], "standard, though widespread in sports reporting and journalism" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "consensus",1 ], "Since consensus refers to a collective opinion, the words of opinion in the" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "consensus",1 ], "phrase consensus of opinion are redundant and are therefore avoided in careful usage" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "contemporary",1 ], "Contemporary is most acceptable when used to mean of the same period" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "criterion",1 ], "Criteria, the plural of criterion, is not acceptable as a singular noun in" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "criterion",1 ], "careful written and spoken English" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "data",1 ], "Although now generally used as a singular noun, data is properly a plural" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "Conventions relating to the use of the decimal point are confused| The IX" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "General Conference on Weights and Measures resolved in 1948 that the decimal point" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "However, the Decimal Currency Board recommended that for sums of money the centre dot" ,6 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "figures could be grouped in threes about the decimal point, but that no point or comma" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "marker| Moreover, in some countries the position is reversed, the comma being used as" ,8 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "should be a point on the line or a comma, but not a centre dot| It also resolved that" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "should be used as the decimal point and that the comma should be used as the thousand" ,7 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "should be used for this purpose| These conventions are adopted in this dictionary|" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "decimal point",1 ], "the decimal point and the dot as the thousand marker" ,9 ). c_USAGE([ "double negative",1 ], "There are two contexts where double negatives are found| An adjective with" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "double negative",1 ], "negative force is often used with a negative in order to express a nuance of meaning" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "double negative",1 ], "somewhere between the positive and the negative" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "double negative",1,1,1 ], "A third case, illustrated by I shouldn't wonder if it didn't rain today, has the force of a", 1). c_USAGE([ "double negative",1,1,1 ], "he never went back, not even to collect his belongings|These two uses of what is technically a double negative", 2). c_USAGE([ "double negative",1,1,1 ], "weak positive statement (I expect it to rain today) and is common in informal English", 3). c_USAGE([ "due",1 ], "There is considerable controversy over the use of due to and owing to as" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "due",1 ], "compound prepositions equivalent to because of| Careful users of English prefer because" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "due",1 ], "of" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "each other",1 ], "Each other and one another are interchangeable in modern British usage," ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "each other",1 ], "despite recommendations by some authorities that the meaning of the former be" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "each other",1 ], "restricted to each of two and the latter to each of three or more" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "easy",1 ], "Easy is not used as an adverb by careful speakers and writers except in" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "easy",1 ], "certain set phrasesto take it easy; easy does it" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "either",1 ], "Either is followed by a singular verb in good usage" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "ellipsoid",1 ], "The use of elliptical to mean circumlocutory is avoided by many careful" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "ellipsoid",1 ], "speakers and writers" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "else",1 ], "The possessive of the expressions anybody else, everybody else, nobody else," ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "else",1 ], "else's since it contains two possessives, one of which is redundant" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "else",1 ], "etc|, is formed by adding 's to else: this must be somebody else's letter|Who else" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "else",1 ], "is an exception in that whose else is an acceptable alternative to who else's:" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "else",1 ], "whose else can it beor who else's can it beCareful writers and speakers avoid whose" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "enormity",1 ], "In careful usage, the noun enormity is not employed to convey the idea of" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "enormity",1 ], "great size, but that of something outrageous or horrifying" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "errata",1 ], "Errata is sometimes used to mean a list of errata (in a book)| Careful writers" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "errata",1 ], "and speakers usually treat the word as plural" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "et cetera",1 ], "Since et cetera (or etc|) means and other things" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "everyone",1 ], "Everyone and everybody are interchangeable, as are no one and nobody, and" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "everyone",1 ], "each function as singular in careful English" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "everyone",1 ], "someone and somebody| Everybody, everyone, none, no one, nobody, somebody, someone, and" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "everyone",1,1,1 ], "common in informal English|Careful writers distinguish between everyone and someone as single words and every one and some one as two words,",1). c_USAGE([ "everyone",1,1,1 ], "everyone nodded his head (not their heads)|The use of their in such constructions is, however,",2). c_USAGE([ "everyone",1,1,1 ], "using the latter form to refer to each individual person or thing in a particular group", 3). c_USAGE([ "extant",1 ], "Careful writers distinguish between extant and existent|Both are used of that" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "extant",1 ], "Extant is therefore used of that which still exists, although there would be reason" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "extant",1 ], "for believing that it might have disappeared" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "extant",1 ], "which exists at the present time, but extant has a further connotation of survival|" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "farther",1 ], "In careful usage, farther and farthest are preferred when referring to literal" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "farther",1 ], "distance" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "feel",1 ], "The verbs feel, look, and smell can be followed by an adverb or an adjective" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "feel",1 ], "according to the sense in which they are used|Where a quality of the subject is involved," ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "feel",1 ], "an adjective is used" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "hardly",1 ], "Since hardly, scarcely, and barely already have negative force, it is" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "hardly",1 ], "redundant to use another negative in the same clause" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "ilk",1 ], "Although the use of ilk in the sense of sense 1 is often condemned as being" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "ilk",1 ], "it is nevertheless well established and generally acceptable" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "ilk",1 ], "the result of a misunderstanding of the original Scottish expression of that ilk," ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "kind",2 ], "Careful users of English avoid the mixture of plural and singular" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "kind",2 ], "constructions frequently used informally with kind, as in those kind" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "latter",1 ], "In careful usage, latter is used when only two items are in question" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "lay",1 ], "In careful English" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "less",1 ], "Less should not be confused with fewer| Less means less in quantity" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "lupus",1 ], "In current usage the word lupus alone is generally understood to signify lupus" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "lupus",1 ], "LE" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "lupus",1 ], "vulgaris, lupus erythematosus being normally referred to in full or by the abbreviation" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "may",1 ], "English, however, can is often used where the correct use of may results in forms that" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "may",1 ], "In careful written usage, may is used rather than can when reference is made" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "may",1 ], "appropriate than he can do it when the desired sense is he is allowed to do it|In spoken" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "may",1 ], "are considered to be awkward| Can6t Iis preferred on this ground to mayn6t Iin" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "may",1 ], "speech| The difference between may and might is one of emphasis" ,6 ). c_USAGE([ "may",1 ], "to permission rather than to capability| He may do it is, for this reason, more" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "me",1 ], "Although the nominative case is traditionally required after the verb to be," ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "me",1 ], "even careful speakers say it is me (or him, her, etc|) rather than it is I in" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "me",1 ], "informal contexts|The use of me, etc|, before an -ing form of the verb (he disapproved" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "me",1 ], "of me coming) is common, but careful speakers and writers use the possessive form" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "medium",1 ], "Careful writers and speakers do not use media as a singular noun when" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "medium",1 ], "referring to a medium of mass communication, although this use is commontelevision is a" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "medium",1 ], "valuable medium (not media) for advertising" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "modifier",1 ], "Nouns are frequently used in English to modify other nouns" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "most",1 ], "The meanings of most and mostly should not be confused| In she was most" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "most",1 ], "addition to the news, which affected her, although less so|More and most should also be" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "most",1 ], "affected by the news, most is equivalent to very and is generally acceptable|In she was" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "most",1 ], "distinguished when used in comparisons|More applies to cases involving two persons, objects," ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "most",1 ], "etc|, most to cases involving three or more" ,6 ). c_USAGE([ "most",1 ], "mostly affected by the news, the implication is that there was something else, in" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "myself",1 ], "The use of myself for I or me is often the result of an attempt to be elegant" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "myself",1 ], "or correct| However, careful users of English only employ myself when it follows I" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "myself",1 ], "or me in the same clause" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "neither",1 ], "A verb following a compound subject that uses neither||| should be in the" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "neither",1 ], "singular if both subjects are in the singular" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "never",1 ], "In good usage, never is not used with simple past tenses to mean not her go)" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "nothing",1 ], "Nothing always takes a singular verb in careful usage, although a plural verb" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "nothing",1 ], "is often heard in informal speech in sentences such as nothing but books were on" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "nothing",1 ], "the shelf" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "occur",1 ], "In careful English, occur and happen are not used of prearranged events" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "off",1 ], "In educated usage, off is not followed by from or of: he stepped off (not off" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "off",1 ], "bought apples from (rather than off)the man" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "off",1 ], "of)the platform|Careful writers also avoid using the word in the place of from: they" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "one",1 ], "Where the pronoun one is repeated, as in one might think one would be unwise" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "one",1 ], "to say that, he is sometimes substituted" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "only",1 ], "In informal English, only is often used as a sentence connector" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "onto",1 ], "Onto is now generally accepted as a word in its own right| On to is still" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "onto",1 ], "used, however, where on is considered to be part of the verb" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "ought",1 ], "In careful English, ought is not used with did or had|I ought not to do it," ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "ought",1 ], "have done it" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "ought",1 ], "not I didnot ought to do it; I ought not to have done it, not I hadnot ought to" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "outside",1 ], "In careful usage" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "pair",1 ], "Like other collective nouns, pair takes a singular or a plural verb according" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "pair",1 ], "links was gratefully received" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "pair",1 ], "that pair (the two of them) are on very good terms" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "pair",1 ], "to whether it is seen as a unit or as a collection of two thingsthe pair of cuff" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "pair",1 ], "with each other" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "pence",1 ], "Since the decimalization of British currency and the introduction of the" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "pence",1 ], "abbreviation p, as in 10p, 85p, etc|, the abbreviation has tended to replace pence in" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "pence",1 ], "speech, as in 4p , 12p , etc" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "person",1 ], "People is the word usually used to refer to more than one individual" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "phenomenon",1 ], "Although phenomena is often treated as if it were singular" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "rather",1 ], "(or had rather)go to the film than to the play|Had rather is less common and now" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "rather",1 ], "Both would and had are used with rather in sentences such as I would rather" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "rather",1 ], "widely regarded as slightly old-fashioned" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "re",2 ], "Re, in contexts such as re your letter, your remarks have been noted or he" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "re",2 ], "concerning in the latter| Even in business correspondence, the use of re is often" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "re",2 ], "general English with reference to is preferable in the former case and about or" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "re",2 ], "restricted to the letter heading" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "re",2 ], "spoke to me re your complaint, is common in business or official correspondence| In" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "re-",1 ], "Verbs beginning with re- indicate repetition or restoration| It is unnecessary" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "re-",1 ], "again);we recounted the votes (not recounted the votes again, which implies that the" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "re-",1 ], "to add an adverb such as back or again: This must not occur again (not recur" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "re-",1 ], "votes were counted three times, not two)" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "reckon",1 ], "Some senses of reckon are considered informal by many writers and speakers|" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "reckon",1 ], "The usage I reckon on your support is sometimes avoided in formal contexts, while" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "reckon",1 ], "in the sentence It will snow tonight, I reckon, the words believe, suppose, think," ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "reckon",1 ], "or imagine are preferred to reckon" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "ring",2 ], "Rang and sang are the correct forms of the past tenses of ring and sing" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "same",1 ], "English, however, this use of the word is avoided" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "same",1 ], "The use of same exemplified in if you send us your order for the materials, we" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "same",1 ], "will deliver same tomorrow is common in business and official English| In general" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "shall",1 ], "The usual rule given for the use of shall and will is that where the meaning" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "shall",1 ], "for the second and third" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "shall",1 ], "is one of simple futurity, shall is used for the first person of the verb and will" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "should",1 ], "Should has, as its most common meaning in modern English, the sense ought as" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "should",1 ], "conditional subjunctives" ,6 ). c_USAGE([ "should",1 ], "in I should go to the graduation, but I don't see how I can|However, the older" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "should",1 ], "polite form than would: I should like to go, but I can't|In much speech and writing," ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "should",1 ], "sense of the subjunctive of shall is often used with I or we to indicate a more" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "should",1 ], "should has been replaced by would in contexts of this kind, but it remains in" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "so",1 ], "Careful writers of formal English consider it poor style to use so as a" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "so",1 ], "conjunction, to indicate either purpose (he did it so he could feel happier) or result (he" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "so",1 ], "could not do it so he did not try)|In the former case in order to should be used" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "so",1 ], "instead and in the latter case and so or and therefore would be more acceptable" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "(he decided to really try next time) and to change it would result in an artificial" ,6 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "Indeed, very often the most natural position of the adverb is between to and the verb" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "The traditional rule against placing an adverb between to and its verb is" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "and awkward construction (he really decided to try next time)|The current view is" ,7 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "clumsy sentence (he decided to firmly and definitively deal with the problem), this is" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "construction as incorrect" ,11 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "gradually disappearing| Although it is true that a split infinitive may result in a" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "not enough to justify the absolute condemnation that this practice has attracted|" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "therefore that the split infinitive is not a grammatical error| Nevertheless, many" ,8 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "with a more traditional point of view are likely to interpret this type of" ,10 ). c_USAGE([ "split infinitive",1 ], "writers prefer to avoid splitting infinitives in formal written English, since readers" ,9 ). c_USAGE([ "strata",1 ], "In careful usage, strata is the standard plural of stratum and is not treated" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "strata",1 ], "as a singular noun" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "than",1 ], "In sentences such as he does it far better than I, than is usually regarded in" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "than",1 ], "careful usage as a conjunction governing an unexpressed verb" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "(which may be anywhere, but not on the table)|In the book, which is on the table, is" ,5 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "Precise stylists maintain a distinction between that and which: that is used" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "as a relative pronoun in restrictive clauses and which in nonrestrictive" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "clauses|In the book that is on the table is mine, the clause that is on the table is used" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "interchangeably" ,9 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "mine, the which clause is merely descriptive or incidental| The more formal the level" ,6 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "of language, the more important it is to preserve the distinction between the two" ,7 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "relative pronouns; but in informal or colloquial usage, the words are often used" ,8 ). c_USAGE([ "that",1 ], "to distinguish one particular book (the one on the table) from another or others" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "there",1 ], "Careful writers and speakers ensure that the verb agrees with the number of" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "there",1 ], "people waiting|However, where the subject is compound even careful speakers frequently" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "there",1 ], "the subject in such constructions as there is a man waiting and there are several" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "there",1 ], "use the singular as in there is a pen and a book on the table" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "till",1 ], "Till is a variant of until that is acceptable at all levels of language| Until" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "till",1 ], "is, however, often preferred at the beginning of a sentence in formal writing" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "to",1 ], "In formal usage, to is always used with an infinitive and never omitted as in" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "to",1 ], "come see the show|The use of and instead of to is very common in informal speech but" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "to",1 ], "is avoided by careful writers" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "very",1 ], "In strict usage adverbs of degree such as very, too, quite, really, and" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "very",1 ], "extremely are used only to qualify adjectives" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "way",1 ], "The use of the way for as in sentences such as he does not write the way his" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "way",1 ], "father did is well established in the U|S| and is common in British informal" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "way",1 ], "usage|Careful writers, however, prefer as in formal contexts" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "well-nigh",1 ], "In strict usage, well-nigh is an adverb meaning nearly or almost and not a" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "well-nigh",1 ], "preposition meaning near: he well-nigh cried; he was near (not well-nigh)death" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "were",1 ], "(I wish he were there now)|In informal speech, however, was is often used instead" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "were",1 ], "Were, as a remnant of the past subjunctive in English, is used in formal" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "were",1 ], "contexts in clauses expressing hypotheses (if he were to die, she would inherit" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "were",1 ], "everything), suppositions contrary to fact (if I were you, I would be careful), and desire" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "when",1 ], "Care should be taken so that when and where refer explicitly to time or place," ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "when",1 ], "a condition in which (not when or where)parts of the body cannot be moved" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "when",1 ], "and not used loosely to substitute for in which after the verb to be: paralysis is" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "whence",1 ], "Careful users of English avoid the expression from whence, since whence" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "whence",1 ], "already means from that place" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "whom",1 ], "In formal English, careful writers always use whom when the objective form of" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "whom",1 ], "to be unnatural, esp| at the beginning of a sentence" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ "whom",1 ], "who is required|In informal contexts, however, many careful speakers consider whom" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "year",1 ], "In writing spans of years, it is important to choose a style that avoids" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ "year",1 ], "ambiguity| The practice adopted in this dictionary is, in four-figure dates, to specify" ,2 ). c_USAGE([ "year",1 ], "first" ,4 ). c_USAGE([ "year",1 ], "the last two digits of the second date if it falls within the same century as the" ,3 ). c_USAGE([ ',1 ], "Amoral is frequently and incorrectly used where immoral is meant|In careful" ,1 ). c_USAGE([ ',1 ], "usage" ,2 ).