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Please try to understand: it’s “try to” not “try and”
I’ve often stressed that the observations and advice posted here are primarily about written English, as opposed to spoken English. For a number of reasons written English and spoken English can almost be thought of as two separate languages, or … Continue reading
Posted in Grammar, Language, Things you should know, Writing
Tagged copyediting, dialect, dialogue, editing, English, formal, grammar and usage, informal, shoud have, should of, spoken, tolkien, try and, try to, written
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