[Grammar] Could someone recommend me a good grammar book?

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I have built my English foundation, and I have read some English grammar books, but they are not perfect. I need a perfect and complete English grammar book, could you recommend some? And please tell me your reason for recommending it.

 

[Tdol]

Re: Could someone recommend me a good grammer book?

There's no such thing as a perfect and complete grammar book- language is constantly changing and there are areas of disagreement. If you want a decent grammar, then Michael Swan's Practical English Usage is worth having, combining both grammar and questions of patterns of usage. A very wide-ranging grammar like Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik's A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, or the Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken English might help.

 

[Mori]

Re: Could someone recommend me a good grammer book?

Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken English might help.

Actually its title is Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English.

And to make the list more complete: The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

 

[Tdol]

Re: Could someone recommend me a good grammer book?

Hey, I was doing it in a hotel room from memory. I should have googled it. I apologise. In my favour, I could remember all four authors of the previous work. :up:

 

[Matthew Wai]

Re: Could someone recommend me a good grammer book?

I doubt it is necessary to buy a grammar book, as grammar sites abound.

 

[Tdol]

Re: Could someone recommend me a good grammer book?

The books cited above are worth having. Think of them as anchors in a world of internet whirl.

 

[Rover_KE]

registered, please note that I have amended your thread title.

The misspelling of 'grammar' on the page of titles was doing my head in.