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Mine is "try and" - Please, please stop saying this. It doesn't make any sense (except in the rare cases that it does, like "try and fail," unless you really ar
by Nifty3929 3y ago
Mine is "try and" - Please, please stop saying this. It doesn't make any sense (except in the rare cases that it does, like "try and fail," unless you really are trying TO fail, in which case it doesn't)
The correct phrase is "try TO"
I'm on a one-person crusade to fix this throughout the English speaking world, by occasionally ranting about it to a relatively small group of indifferent people on the internet. Is it working?
- srcreigh 3y ago“Try” is it’s own verb, and the x in “try and x” is also a verb/verb phrase. Read and weep!
- a2800276 3y agoAs in: "Will this work?" - "Why don't you try and see?" ? This is perfectly acceptable in my opinion, it's an elliptical form of: "Why don't you try (to do whatever "this" is) and see (if it will work)?". "Comprise" means the opposite of what people who use "comprised of" think it means. While "¹