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Originally Posted by HarryT
The "Chicago Manual of Style" is often recommended. Available online here.
For British English, the definitive work is perhaps Fowler's "Modern English Usage". |
Harry, both of the books you name are usage books, not grammar books. Usage and grammar are different. Usage determines, for example, whether president should be lowercase or uppercase, whether the correct word is compliment or complement. Grammar books focus on structural elements -- is it a noun, adverb, verb, etc.