Swan Michael. Practical English usage

Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 1995. — 674 p.Practical English Usage is a dictionary of problem points in the language for foreign students and their teachers.How to use the book
This is a reference book, not a systematic course in English grammar. It will be most useful to a student who has made a mistake and wants to find out why it is wrong, or to a teacher who is looking for a clear explanation of a difficult point of grammar or vocabulary. The best way to find a point is to look in the index at the back: most problems are indexed under several different names, so it is not usually difficult to locate quickly the entry you need. (For instance, if you want to know why we say I'm not used to driving on the left instead of* I'm not used to drive on the left, you can find the number of the section where this is explained by looking in the index under 'used', 'be used', 'to' or'-ing foims'.)