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Re: Language question -- try TO or try AND?
Posted By: Sam, on host 206.152.189.219
Date: Thursday, January 11, 2001, at 06:44:51
In Reply To: Re: Language question -- try TO or try AND? posted by Issachar on Thursday, January 11, 2001, at 06:20:46:

> I don't think that "try and (do something)" qualifies as an instance of hendiadys.

It does; this was specifically given as an example in the sources I've seen the word defined. Honestly, I don't see the difference between your examples and this one. "Try and do something" is a conjunction, and it's used in place of the subordination of "do something" to "try."

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