Practical English Usage
Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers written by Michael Swan. It features basic descriptions of English grammar and usage as well as highlighting various words which for some reasons are difficult to use by non-native speakers. Although the model is basically British English, it explains some of the stylistic differences between British and American usage.
Published by Oxford University Press, it has sold over 1.5 million copies since the first edition was published in 1980. [citation needed] A new, and greatly extended second edition was published in 1995.
In his Acknowledgements for the first edition, Swan refers to the aid given him by "various standard reference books - in particular, the splendid A Grammar of Contemporary English, by Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik" (Longman 1972), and in the second edition, to "the monumental Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language" (Longman 1985), by the same authors.
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