As someone who went through pretty good schools sixty years ago, I was exposed, to say the least, to the precepts of good speech. I was comfortable with most of them, but I never regarded “grammar” as a respectable authority. Brandishing rulebooks allegedly handed down from on high is an awful waste of time with …

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I’m going to try and…. I’m going to try to explain my dislike of this construction. Whether or not it’s grammatically incorrect to write such sentences as “I’m going to try and go to the store to buy a few things” means very little to me. What means a great deal is giving the impression …

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