Based on the passage, what made Johnson's dictionary innovative? It was the first dictionary to try to restore English to its early form. It was the first dictionary to use modern page decorations. It was the first dictionary to trace word usage by using quotations from authoritative writers. It was the first dictionary to try to correct the writing of past authors.

Although there was no passage mentioned, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is considered to be innovative because i t was the first dictionary to trace word usage by using quotations from authoritative writers. He finished the dictionary after seven years since he single-handedly copied the illustrative quotations he found in books into the dictionary he created.