A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik
Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English by Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan(1999, Pearson ESL)
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language by Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum - Cambridge University Press (2002)
The Oxford English Grammar by Sidney Greenbaum
英文写作指导书,老资格的名著是《The Elements of Style》、《On Writing Well》等,新晋的名作是Steven Pinker的《The Sense of Style:The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century》,我粗略都浏览过一些,个人觉得启发其实不大,毕竟我虽然经常读英文,但并不日常用英文写作。
《The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language》这些书,英文1800页,一般来说是没法读的。它同时是优点和缺点,优点是无比详尽,你能想到的语法问题、疑惑都可以在书中找到解答,缺点是不大可能真的去读它,而是就某个语法难点或兴趣去书里找到相关章节选读若干文字,这对Quirk的经典巨著同样成立。