Here she collaborates with her husband, Mitchell Sharmat. They live in Tucson, Arizona. More about Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. Bestselling Books: Nate the Great, Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt (Nate the Great, No. 12) , Nate the Great Goes Undercover.
Usage is defined as the way that something is being used, or to the proper way to make use of something such as a word or phrase or tool. 1  When the power company measures how and when people use power, this is an example of a study of usage. 2  When you use a word incorrectly, this is an example of an improper usage.
(grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.