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Old 08-05-2010, 12:05 PM   #5857
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Jusging from what is on the site, I don't think the book will be very much help to you. The author himself opines that he is not writing for speakers of English as a Second Language, and most of the errors seem to be the kinds of ones that are made by English native speakers rather than foreign speakers - except, perhaps, for the ubiquitous confusion between 'lose' and 'loose'.

I'd suggest the Longman's Dictionary of Common Errors. This is based on analysis of errors made by EFL students from the Longman's corpus. It is for British rather than American English, but is rather more systematic and rather more helpful to the learner than the book you've been looking at. I'm afraid it's also more expensive and is not, so far as I can judge, in eBook form.
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