“…If (P 3 ) does not hold, then we say that (1.1) is in canonical form. In recent years, there are many results dealing with the oscillation of (1.1) and its modifications for the delay case, that is, σ(t) ≤ t, see for example [2,4,7,11,12,14], and few results in the case of σ(t) ≥ t, see [1, 3, 5, 6, 8-10, 13-17, 19, 20, 23]. Many authors paid attention to a comparison technique, which is a powerful tool in the theory of oscillation, see, for instance, the papers [11,19,21,24] for more details.…”