As 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 wha

As 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