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go/come + and + simple form #1 (permalink) Wed Dec 14, 2011 16:44 pm   go/come + and + simple form
 

I would like to know if this rule(go/come + and + simple form) is only applied to 'go' and 'come' or it can be used with other action verbs?
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go/come + and + simple form #2 (permalink) Wed Dec 14, 2011 19:51 pm   go/come + and + simple form
 

I think this is a tricky question. It seems to me that, in principle, almost any verb can be used in this way in the sense "do one thing and (then, or at the same time) do another thing". Besides being particularly usual, do "come and" and "go and" have any special status? Is "come and have your say" grammatically different from "attend and express your opinion", for example?

Other fairly common examples that come to mind are:

"call and..." (e.g "call and ask her")
"wait and..." (e.g "wait and hear what he has to say")
"stop and..." (e.g "stop and think about it")
"run and..." (e.g. "run and get me a coffee")
"try and..." (e.g "try and find it") (though this is a colloquial form of "try to..." and I don't know if it should be classified differently)

There may be a potential for distinguishing some cases on the basis of whether "and" can be replaced by "to" without completely destroying the sense. For example, in this way we might be able to exclude plain "do one thing and do another thing" examples like "shout and scream" or "rinse and repeat" (e.g. "shout to scream" doesn't make sense).
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go/come + and + simple form #3 (permalink) Wed Dec 14, 2011 20:32 pm   go/come + and + simple form
 

Thank you so much.
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