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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Is it better if I omit 'try'

They would tell him nasty lies to try and discourage him from the career he had chosen.

Should I keep the word 'try' or would it be better if I just wrote: They would tell him nasty lies to discourage him.....

Thanks a lot.
  

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If ‘they’ have been successful in the past, I would omit “try”; but otherwise they are just attempting to discourage him, so include it.

— Wilpeter

  • If ‘they’ have been successful in the past, I would omit “try”; but otherwise they are just attempting to discourage him, so include it.
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If ‘they’ have been successful in the past, I would omit “try”; but otherwise they are just attempting to discourage him, so include it.
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