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Reddit mentions of The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
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| Length | 6 Inches |
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| Release date | September 2003 |
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Especially if your primary communication in English is written, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style is really your indispensable resource. It's much more about composition than grammar specifically, but the two topics are so closely linked that you'll benefit from it.
The Well-Tempered Sentence is another good resource, with a much more lighthearted approach. It's also primarily focused on written forms.
Neither of these are deep resources for grammar structure or usage rules, but understanding and implementing them will put you head and shoulders above a great many native speakers. I think if you're more interested in speaking than writing you'll want a language course of some kind. I've no personal experience with them, so I can't recommend one on that basis.
Good luck.
I'm sorry, but that's one of the most useless guides ever written. Truss knows nothing about the rules of English and I found a factual error on the very first page I randomly read. Even worse, there's no way to look up a rule if you want to find out what she says. Entertaining read, but Truss is stuck in the 1940s and doesn't understand her subject one bit.
For what you're looking for, get Karen Elizabeth Goonan's "The Well-Tempered Sentence." Her "The Transitive Vampire" is also excellent for grammar.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Well-Tempered-Sentence-Punctuation-Handbook/dp/0618382011
Something by Karen Elizabeth Gordon perhaps? She uses amusingly macabre example sentences juxtaposed with weird public domain illustrations. Some of her titles are Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth, The Transitive Vampire: a Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed and The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook
You should try to find The Well-tempered Sentence. It's a fun English grammar book that you could use as a reference for English punctuation.