There are no degrees of certainty. Don't write a thing seems more certain.
Amateur means non-professional, not necessarily unskilled. Novice implies lack of skill.
Spectators see; an audience is a collection of auditors. Spectators go to ball games and motion picture theaters.
Use render in speaking of lard and not of songs.
Don't use complected for complexioned.
Don't write better half for wife.
Do not write that a thing grows smaller.
We write wages are. The biblical phrase is, The wages of sin is death.
Don't write the three first. You mean the first three.
A justice presides in police court, in justice court and in the supreme court. A judge presides in other courts except the recorder's court, which is presided over by the recorder and his associate. Justices of the supreme court of the states and the nation are referred to as Mr. Justice Jones or Chief Justice White.