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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: try and vs try to #83817 10/19/02 01:04 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 872 Birmingham, Alabama M milum old hand milum old hand M Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 872 Birmingham, Alabama Semantically the point is in the trying. As in... All we could do is try, and see if someone would come and explain. (omit comma) And it is temporal, as in... We all tried (time one) and (time two) then saw (for example) that milo was right. Sometimes I question the use of "try to" when "try and" would do quite well thank you. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted try and vs try to wwh 10/18/02 05:15 PM Re: try and vs try to RhubarbCommando 10/18/02 06:24 PM Re: try and vs try to tsuwm 10/18/02 06:44 PM Re: try and vs try to Sparteye 10/19/02 01:43 AM Re: try and vs try to Bobyoungbalt 10/19/02 01:47 AM Re: try and vs try to Capital Kiwi 10/19/02 03:08 AM Re: visit with AnnaStrophic 10/19/02 03:42 AM Re: visit with Capital Kiwi 10/19/02 04:32 AM Re: visit with sjm 10/19/02 05:52 AM Re: visit with tsuwm 10/19/02 06:56 AM Re: visit with Faldage 10/19/02 11:01 AM Re: visit with + "on" Buffalo Shrdlu 10/19/02 11:49 AM Re: visit with of troy 10/19/02 12:18 PM Re: visit with Faldage 10/19/02 12:39 PM Re: try and vs try to sjm 10/19/02 03:13 AM Re: try and vs try to Sparteye 10/20/02 04:11 PM Re: try and vs try to FishonaBike 10/21/02 11:46 AM Re: try and vs try to Bean 10/21/02 02:02 PM Re: try and vs try to milum 10/19/02 01:04 PM Re: try and vs try to Buffalo Shrdlu 10/19/02 01:14 PM Re: try and vs try to milum 10/19/02 02:36 PM trying to get to the nuculus of the discussion wofahulicodoc 10/19/02 02:42 PM Re: trying to get to the nuculus of the discussio milum 10/19/02 03:08 PM conference call to the Committee? wofahulicodoc 10/19/02 03:18 PM Re: conference call to the Committee? tsuwm 10/19/02 03:48 PM Re: conference call to the Committee? Capital Kiwi 10/19/02 04:46 PM Trying my patience? musick 10/20/02 04:55 PM Re: conference call to the Committee? milum 10/20/02 06:02 PM Re: conference call to the Committee? tsuwm 10/20/02 06:07 PM Re: try and vs try to of troy 10/19/02 03:07 PM Re: try and vs try to Buffalo Shrdlu 10/19/02 04:53 PM Re: try and vs try to wsieber 10/21/02 05:19 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,372 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 381 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 28 A C Bowden 25 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,561 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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