The two sentences don’t mean the same thing. The first one focuses on making an effort to avoid doing an undesirable act. The second one states that no effort is made to do that undesirable act.

Hello Nima_Persian,

I had also the same query in several times. But what makes people prefer to use VERB + NUMB+TO VERB as like as in sentence 1 in most cases rather than using sentence 2 in sentences?

First sentence:

I try not to drive my car in an inefficient Manner. I do this so that without using your car (I threw my car out of the parked lane then I just pressed in a parking spot)

Sentence 2: I don’t try to drive my car intentionally but can’t stop if I just want to suck it up a little?s of my driver’s seat…

Are both formal and similar? What is the opposite? What are some of the differences between these sentences?

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1. Both the sentences mean the same.
2. ‘Verb + Not to’ (Sentence 1) is used in general form diction.
3. It (Sentence 1) places emphasis on the verb and makes the reader / listener focus in on the statement.
4. We can use this statement written in writing and speaking…(Sentence 1), I was told by

him, “We can use this statement in writing and speaking.”

When I do something wrong I try to fix it.

I don’t try to make mistakes.

What are some subtly distinct words in a computer program?

(The first implies that you are putting effort towards not making errors.) The second implies that you are putting effort towards not making errors.

Is to putting effort to make mistakes only two of you are making.?

In general, the first is probably what you mean

– I use words like “a single number” or “1 in “1” and then “two numbers” in general.