Nicole
Hi
It looks like just an idiom fault. I do not also see any problem in a sentence starting with the gerund 'trying'when it could be part of a substantive phrase acting as the subject. here is some theory on that
There is a class of noun phrases called substantive phrases that act as the subjects of a clause. While of course substantive phrases multifunctional such as acting as subjects, subject complements, direct objects and so on. Here is one aspect of them where they start a sentence.
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Hi
It looks like just an idiom fault. I do not also see any problem in a sentence starting with the gerund 'trying'when it could be part of a substantive phrase acting as the subject. here is some theory on that
There is a class of noun phrases called substantive phrases that act as the subjects of a clause. While of course substantive phrases multifunctional such as acting as subjects, subject complements, direct objects and so on. Here is one aspect of them where they start a sentence.
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