| ▲ | kazinator 6 days ago | |
"try and <clause>" is syntactically correct. That is to say, > I'm going to try and change the course of Hip-Hop. can be parsed as > I'm going to try; I'm going to change the course of Hip-Hop. which has been subject to a well-understood extraposition process to factor out the leading "I'm going to" from all the clauses, so that a single copy of it distributes into all of them. It's essentially the same as what is going on in the following unassailably correct sentence: > I'm going to turn on the TV, crack open a beer, and watch the game". Also note that this "and" is not something which exclusively pairs with "try": > Linguists, go ahead and fight me! | ||
| ▲ | jameshart 6 days ago | parent [-] | |
There's explanations in the article of why 'try and' can't be parsed as simply as that kind of parallel ellipsis structure. No reordering: You can't rephrase as I'm going to change the course of Hip-Hop and try the way you can I'm going to watch the game and crack open a beer No use of both: You can't say I'm going to both try and change the course of Hip-Hop the way you could I'm going to both crack open a beer and watch the game No inflections: You can't say I have tried and changed the course of Hip-Hop the way you can I have cracked open a beer and watched the game | ||