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Determine whether or not there is an error in the underlined portion of the sentence above. If there is no error, select answer choice "A".
*This question is included in Nova Press: Set D - Faulty Parallelism, question #3
| (A) | to try repairing an old car than to junk it. |
| (B) | ... |
| (C) | ... |
| (D) | ... |
| (E) | ... |
| (F) | ... |
The solution is
Posted: 03/21/2013 18:37
Try and and try to are mostly interchangeable try to being slightly more formal. Given that try and has entered dictionaries along with try to with no difference in meaning offered, I doubt it (try and) can be considered not idiomatic...