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Is it possible for the indefinite article (a/an) to precede an ordinal number? | the date
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come to get you #1 (permalink) Thu Jan 12, 2012 21:03 pm   come to get you
 

Would it be correct to say : 'Just stay alive and wait patiently until the government officials come to get you' instead of 'come and get you'?
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come to get you #2 (permalink) Thu Jan 12, 2012 21:30 pm   come to get you
 

Yes. In cases such as this, where the sense is "in order to", "come to ~" is preferable in formal English, in my opinion. "come and ~" is widepread in everyday English.

Note that "come to" is usually not natural in the imperative. For example, you would say to someone "Come and take a look", not "Come to take a look".
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