Is starting a sentence with 'are trying' grammatically correct?
1 Answer
Dec 2, 2017
Definitely not!
Explanation:
The reason it's incorrect is because there is no subject: "are trying" suggests that someone or something "are trying", but we have no idea who or whom. In order to use this construction, the sentence would have to begin with a noun: a person, place(s), or thing (preferably in the plural form, since we are using "are" instead of "is", the singular form). Therefore, it would need to start something like this: "People are trying" "Activists are trying" "Educators are trying" "Citizens are trying", and so on.
