Buying in vs buying at
Hi guy, can you help me out with this.
I initially wrote:
My first attempt in buying the pack.
But auto-correct showed that it should be:
My first attempt at buying the pack.
I'm not sure why it should be 'at' instead of 'in', can anyone help me out with this? What's the difference?
Top answer
We say that someone makes an attempt "at" doing something (or an attempt to do something), not "in". There isn't really any reliable way to predict this. As is often the case with English prepositions, you just have to learn the idiomatic collocations.
- We say that someone makes an attempt "at" doing something (or an attempt to do something), not "in".
- There isn't really any reliable way to predict this.
- As is often the case with English prepositions, you just have to learn the idiomatic collocations.
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We say that someone makes an attempt "at" doing something (or an attempt to do something), not "in". There isn't really any reliable way to predict this. As is often the case with English prepositions, you just have to learn the idiomatic collocations.
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