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Old 08-05-2010, 01:30 PM   #5860
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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 was thinking the same. It's only anecdotal evidence, but I've written in English and have worked with native English speakers on editing and proof-reading, and my experience is that the errors I make are not the same one as the ones native speakers make, and are typically related to my own native language and the differences between it and English.
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