AND instead of infinitive with Try, Wait, Go, Come...

1. In informal English, we often used 'try and' instead of 'try to'. 

Try and get some unsalted butter (Try to... is also possible). 

I really must try and see Paul this week (Or: ...try to...). 

This structure is possible with the simple form 'try', but not with tries, tried or trying. You cannot say 'I tried and got...' or 'He always tries and get...'

'Wait' and 'See' is similar. 

Let's wait and see (Not: 'We waited and saw' or 'Let's wait to see'). 

2. After 'come', 'go', 'run', 'hurry', 'stay', 'stop' and some other verbs, 'and' can be used instead of an infinitive of purpose. 

Come and have a drink. 

Hurry up and get dressed. 

Say and have dinner. 

We ought to stop and think. 

Would you go and tell the children to shut up? 

In these cases, however; third person forms and past tenses are possible. 

He usually stays and has dinner with us after the game. 

I went and had a drink with John yesterday. 

The 'to' infinitive is unusual in expressions like these and cannot be used after 'hurry up'. 

Informal American, 'and' is often left out after 'go'. 

Go jump in the river. 

All Vs Whole

Typical mistakes: 

The sat reading the all time. 

I've lived here my all life. 

Whole London was burning. 

She drank the whole wine. 

These two words are easy confuse, perhaps because their pronunciations are similar. 

1. 'Whole' and 'all' are often used with the same meaning. However, the word order is different. 'All' come before an article, possessive or other 'determiner'; 'whole' comes after articles, ete. Compare the following: 

All the time     the whole time 

All my life       my whole life 

All this confusion     this whole confusion 

Note what 'whole' cannot be used with a singular noun if there is no article or other determiner. You can say 'The whole city was burning, but not 'Whole London was burning.' 

2. With plural nouns, 'whole' and 'all' have different meanings. 'Whole' mean 'complete', 'entire'; 'all' has a similar meaning to 'every'. Compare the following: 

All Indian tribe suffered from white settlement in America (= Every Indian tribe suffered...). 

Whole Indian tribes were killed off (= Complete tribes were killed off; nobody was left alive in these tribes). 

3. 'Whole' is not used so often with uncountable nouns and cannot be used with mass nouns. You can say 'all the money', or 'all the wine', but not 'the whole money' or the 'the whole wine'. 

4. The expression 'the whole of' can be used with singular words instead of 'whole'. 'The whole of' comes before articles, possessives, etc. 

The whole of the time     The whole of this confusion     The whole of my life