use and usage

[matilda]

Hello all

How are you?
I need a complete definition about (use) and (usage).
I need to know the difference between them, because i want to teach it in one of my classes and i still have problem in using them .


Regards,
Mathilde

[Tdol]

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...usage-use.html

[Fred O'Hanlon]

Hi Matilde

'Usage' refers to a (written) record of examples of spoken or written English.

'Use' refers, not to examples, but to what is or might be said by native speakers in real life; not to examples of what people have said but to explanations of the way in which people use words.

Fred O'Hanlon