A grammatically incorrect form of 'try to'. While 'try and' is commonly used, it is incorrect, as it technically means: try an unspecified action, then do the other, specified action. One can either try
something, do something or try to do something, but one cannot try and do something.
Unlike 'try to', 'try and' is seldom inflected; whilst one
may (incorrectly) use 'try and' instead of 'try to', one would very rarely use 'trying and' or 'tried and' instead of 'trying to' and 'tried to', respectively.
It is important to remember that 'try' is synonymous with 'attempt'. The
word 'attempt' means to make an effort to achieve something. It is very
rare to here 'attempt and' as most people recognise 'attempt and' as incorrect, however, the same people often fail
bear that in mind when using the
word 'try'.
Person 1: Try and speak good English.
Person 2: It is 'try to', not 'try and'; one can try
something or try to do
something, but not both at the same
time.
The phrase 'try and', is as annoying as 'could of'.