You can
forget Harbrace College Handbook or Strunk and White Elements of Style as your
definitive writing reference guides. The
best book I have run across, and the book I most often use when writing or grammar
questions arise is the Writer Source 2000. This is a junior high school guide to
writing, thinking and learning; and the most understandable, convenient and
definitive book on writing in my library.
It is available used through Amazon for as little as four dollars.
If I only
had one writing guide, this would be my pick.
the Ol’Buzzard