Oxford Practical English Usage | Fully Revised International Edition by Michael Swan

The best book in the world for English usage as of now, advanced, comprehensive, accurate and most modern published by one of the best universities in the world.

An absolute must-have for ESL teachers. I’ve never heard of this book but bought it based on reviews. Thanks to all those reviewers for helping me find something that is incredibly useful.

This book is not traditional grammar book. It covers some new aspects of grammar that is useful for advanced learners not for beginners. So it should must have in the collection of grammar books of every advanced english learners.

Really awesome grammar book . Written by a great scholar. I have no words. It's just an unbelievable compilation.

Good book for learner

PRACTICAL ENGLISH USAGE - Fully revised international edition- Michael Swan What I liked in this book: 1. Differences between British and American English - I found it in this book and not in the latest version of Wren & Martin book. The old version of Wren & Martin book published by S.Chand around 2004 had this content but now this specific content is removed in the latest Wren & Martin book. Don't know why did the publishers removed it. 2. The book clarifies how to construct the correct sentence. 3. Everything in grammar is included in this book. Suggestions for improvement: 1. Too much textual matter. The sub-topics begin with a small letter. The black and white text looks boring. It can be enhanced with some blue or red text. 2. No pictures, just plain boring text. 3. No proper highlighted heading. 4. Practice examples with answers were not given. 5. As far as this is concerned, I preferred using Advanced English Grammar by Martin Hewings because it has visuals, common grammatical mistakes people make and assessment questions with answers. Overall, not a bad book at all! The content is good but the the publishers need to improve on the presentation, layouts, fonts colors and highlights to make it visually attractive. I attach photos of the topics covered and a few snapshots in this book to help buyers with their purchase. Other features: The dimensions of this book as as follows: Length: 23.2 cm Width: 15.5 cm Thickness: 3.2 cm Mass: approx 1 kg The Contents in this book are: 1. Verbs 2. Be, have and do 3. Present tenses 4. Talking about the future 5. Past and perfect tenses 6. Passives 7. Modal Auxiliary verbs 8. Infinitives - ing forms and past participles 9. Infinitives - ing forms and past participles after Nouns, verbs 10. Infinitives - ing forms and past participles: other uses 11. Nouns and noun phrases: Agreement 12. Determiners: a/an and the; my, your, etc this that etc 13. Determiners: Quantifiers 14. Pronouns 15. Adjectives 16. Adverbs and adverbials 17. Comparison 18. Prepositions 19. Basic clause types 20. Conjunctions, sentences and Clauses 21. Relative clauses 22. if 23. Other adverbial clauses 24. Noun clauses, direct and indirect speech 25. Information structure 26. Written texts 27. Speech and spoken exchanges 28. Varieties of English 29. Vocabulary areas 30. Word formation and spelling 31. Word problems from A to Z

cleverable book.It has all types of grammars and very cleanly described each and every detail.very nice book.go for it beginners.

Best for advanced level students