Never Use this Phrase, It is Incorrect

Grammar is not a synchronized rule but it is a prescriptive and descriptive set of rules of a language. One must learn how to use a word in a right occasion correctly.

I have seen in many occasions where people failed to use these superlative word correctly- worse and worst. This mostly occurs when people want to use them as a phrase to capture an unfriendly situation.

It is absolutely wrong to say "worse comes to worse". Though it is a new generated idiom. "Worse comes to worst,"--note the t--is better because it indicates something has degraded from one negative plane to the lowest possible.

Example:

1. Worse comes to worst, I will give him my last penny.

2. Worse comes to worst, I will walk home barefooted.

We can also say:

3. If worse comes to worst I will ask him to come.

4. I will sent it through my email address if worse comes to worst.

No. 3 and 4 are conditional statements that emphasize a previous experience.

As in:

I have been trying to send the document to you through my smart phone but it has been failing. If worse comes to worst I will send it to you through my email.

The statement in bold form is an anaphora that beckons on the last part of the statement.


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  1. JumokeNovember 11, 2020 at 1:55 PM

    Wow, this is nice, quite interesting and enlightenment. Well done sir, I look forward to more.

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