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Vsuresh Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Sentence correctess

Hi

Please tell me if either of them is acceptable here.

Fisk is making his third attempt for/at the world record.

While the sentence with for seems easy to explain, I am not able to explain the one with "at".

  

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To me, the idiomatic choice is "at". However, to my surprise, there are more Google hits for the version with "for". I wonder if "for" might be prevalent in AmE.

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  • To me, the idiomatic choice is "at".
  • However, to my surprise, there are more Google hits for the version with "for".
  • I wonder if "for" might be prevalent in AmE.
  • Perhaps an AmE speaker could comment too.
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To me, the idiomatic choice is "at". However, to my surprise, there are more Google hits for the version with "for". I wonder if "for" might be prevalent in AmE. Perhaps an AmE speaker could comment too.

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