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And you included my pet grammatical peeve; "try and". And so I favour the effort to try to keep the language regular; various English spellings notwithstanding.
by tankenmate 12y ago
And you included my pet grammatical peeve; "try and". And so I favour the effort to try to keep the language regular; various English spellings notwithstanding.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoThank you! I'll try to do better. A preposition makes more sense there. Which preposition could be argued. In New Zealand folks say 'he is different to us' instead of 'he is different from us'. One could imagine 'he is different by us' or 'he is different beside us' as correct somewhere. Hm. Is 'try to keep' using 'to' in a prepositional sense? That's a slippery word.
- pdpi 12y agoPretty sure the 'to' there is a part of an infinitive. Replace it with a gerund and it becomes clear: "Try reading it upside down" vs "Try to read it upside down".
- mathieuh 12y agoI think you should have a read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)