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alia189

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Hi,
I know most people say "We should at least give it a try" , but can you also say "At least we should give a try"? Is it grammatically correct to write a sentence like this?
 

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Hi alia,

I have always heard (and used) it with the "it".

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billmcd

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Hi,
I know most people say "We should at least give it a try" , but can you also say "At least we should give a try"? Is it grammatically correct to write a sentence like this?

"Grammatically correct"? Yes. Popular? No.
 

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The idiomatic expression is "give something a try", therefore it's natural to include "it" because "it" represents "something".

There are other alternatives as well:

At least we should give it a try. (give something a try)
At least we should give it a go. (give something a go)
At least we should give it a shot. (give something a shot)
 
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