[Ads-l] _try to_ vs. _try and_

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Nov 8 04:26:15 UTC 2016


Was anyone else specifically taught that _try to_ is "correct," whereas
_try and_ is "incorrect"? It was like, you know, on the final.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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