The Incorrect Word After “Try”

When you try, you try to do something, right? Do not use the word this guy used:

“Try and” means to do two equivalent things, which this isn’t.

And I’ll be a curmudgeon: in the first panel, he says “how’s things.” He should say “how’re things.” Harrumpf.

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Panel 2. You know what she should say, right? See below.

“Laying” is transitive! You need a direct object! You lay something on something (or somewhere), such as lay your body on the bed. No thing to lay, then it’s “lying.” That’s the truth!!!

A lot of folks don’t. Last panel:

The plural is “dice,” the singular is “die.”

I agree, they don’t make a very good pair of words.

I usually pontificate about “only” being too far from what it refers to (Look up “only” in the search box on the upper right). But here’s an example with “just.” Always put these words right next to what they refer to.

In case you don’t get the joke, she’s not talking about getting her hair done, but about how recently the hair was done, and she wants the hairdo to last longer than a week.

See? Word order makes a difference.

First the comic. Her goof is in panel 3:

• Anxious—to look forward to something with fear
• Eager—to look forward to something with delight

As the title implies, these words are not synonyms!