What's the difference between 'try to do' & 'try doing'? English grammar

in this English grammar video we will explain the difference between "try to do" and "try doing" (try + infinitive or try + verb + ing).

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TRANSCRIPT

I've got some grammar for you today. We are going to look at the diffrence between try followed by and infinitive something and try +verb + ing

When we use try to do it means we are going to make an effort

So I've got a list of some thing I'm going to try to do this year. I will make an effort to do them.

try to learn the guitar
I tried to learn
I'm going to improve my french
I'm going to try to read more books.
I'm going to try to go to the gym

Sometimes both forms are possible with slightly different meanings.
Look at these 2 similar sentences and try to see the difference
I tried to improve my English by reading the newspaper every day
My progress in English was slow so I tried reading the newspaper every day.

So in the first example you and making an effort to improve your English. In the second example perhaps your previous efforts did not work very well so you are making an experiment to see if it helps solve the problem. you are trying to read the newspaper every day.

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