Looking for a thorough book or other reference on rules of English syntax

I need a book or some other form of reference on the rules of English syntax. Specifically, I need something that's fairly unambiguous, which is typically somewhat hard to find given that English is inherently ambiguous, that thoroughly explains or lists where in a sentence a type of word can be placed appropriately.

For instance, "The man walked his dog to the park". You can't say "Walked the man to the park his dog," I'm trying to find something that explains word order like that, where a noun or verb or whatever can be placed relative to other letter types, how a sentence can be be organized, etc, for a project I'm working on, and preferably modernized although that's not that big of a deal. I've been doing it a bit myself, however it's going incredibly slow and is somewhat boring.

Anyone know of something like that?