The phrase "I try to clarify" is correct and used in written English.
You can use it when you are attempting to provide more information, examples, or evidence to explain something. For example, "I understand your opinion, but I try to clarify that there are other important considerations to take into account."
I try to clarify that "descent with modification" is not synonymous with "dolphins becoming dogs, or that we were once apes" as one of the survey respondents explained.
In a letter of 13 November 1639, Descartes wrote to Mersenne that he was "working on a discourse in which I try to clarify what I have hitherto written" on metaphysics (2 622).
I try to clarify for people if I can, in the most gentle way possible.
Whenever he says, "Thank you, ma'am," I say, "You're welcome, ma'am". Because when I do that, he's like, "What?" And I'm like, "Yeah, that's how I feel when you do that to me". I try to clarify for people if I can, in the most gentle way possible.
If they have some misconceptions, then I try to clarify.
In the revised version, I try to clarify this in several places.
"And you've done this so we can break the law … legally?" I tried to clarify.
I tried to clarify that I was, of course, Mike's dad, but the chat was by that point completely beyond salvage.
But at the time I was sort of disturbed that people could so misinterpret my intentions, and I guess that's why I tried to clarify them in the next series".
I tried to clarify with D'Souza what exactly he was claiming about selective prosecution.
The prevailing sense of confusion over the details of Stoli's provenance and the wisdom and effectiveness of the boycott have lingered on, so when I ran into Gallineaux -- quite by chance -- unwinding at the Island House in Key West after a challenging four months, I tried to clarify some of the issues that were troubling me.
