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To me "try and" is like a more confident version of "try to." For example, "I will try to win" vs "I'll try and win."
by starstripe 1y ago
To me "try and" is like a more confident version of "try to." For example, "I will try to win" vs "I'll try and win."
- RShackleford 1y ago[dead]
- o11c 1y agoThat would be "try, and". Although the default rule for conjunctions joining predicates is that the comma is optional (by contrast, in most other contexts it is either mandatory or forbidden), there are a lot of circumstances where the comma becomes mandatory to avoid ambiguity or just because.
- Etheryte 1y agoThe two are not interchangeable though, as shown in the article. If someone asks you "Are you going to win?", you could say "I'll try to", but not "I'll try and".
- selimthegrim 1y agoNot sure this works in simple past though. Cf. Dune “They tried and failed? They tried and died”