to or too

Today at 04:42 PM MetalBlade said this in Post #1

Bah, i hate the word too. Ok two means 2. But which time do you use to, or too. I know I am in college and don't know it yet.....

 

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Bah, I'm the last person that should be answering this thread (engineer) but I can share something with you.  If I can replace 'too' with 'also' then I know I'm doing the right thing  Example.

I have a car too

I have a car also

Other times you use 'to', as in:

I need to get a car 

you can't replace this 'to' with 'also' (well you can, but wouldn't make sense)

I need also get a car

But ofcourse someone will post English technical terms for these two words and their uses (which will probably confuse you as it confuses me too ).

not me even though i am not an engineer. my husband is though. he has a degree in electircal and at present is a computer design engineer. what kind are you ?

MB if you mke a mistake just say it was a typo. or would that be lying ? the man gave you the right answer.

You explained it well.

Basically, "too" means "also," nothing more.... if you're not using "to" to mean also, then use "to."

However, using "to" as "also" is NOT a good English

lol...as an ENGLISH major I think you guys explained it very well!!!

Unfortunately, the_man's explanation doesn't cover all the bases. For example:

I saw all too clearly the consequences of my actions on the people around me.

Substituting "too" with "also" in this statement wouldn't work.

This is how "too" is used according to dictionary.com:

1. In addition; also: He's coming along too.
2. More than enough; excessively: She worries too much.
3. To a regrettable degree: My error was all too apparent.
4. Very; extremely; immensely: He's only too willing to be of service.
5. Informal. Indeed; so: You will too do it!

That's very interesting... I wouldn't have thought you could make the confusion...
That's easier for me... I can translate it...

(But there are many problems of this sort in french )

JoieDeVivre:
I didn't know that too is used as in indeed or so, that's interesting to me. Thanks for looking it up!!

31st March 2003 at 05:16 PM Didymus said this in Post #3

not me even though i am not an engineer. my husband is though. he has a degree in electircal and at present is a computer design engineer. what kind are you ?

MB if you mke a mistake just say it was a typo. or would that be lying ? the man gave you the right answer.

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I got mine in electrical and computer engineering.  Second major in Computer science.  I'm a software/systems engineer, basically work on software and hardware systems. But it sounds like your husband and I are in the same field

1st April 2003 at 03:05 AM JoieDeVivre said this in Post #6

Unfortunately, the_man's explanation doesn't cover all the bases. For example:

I saw all too clearly the consequences of my actions on the people around me.

Substituting "too" with "also" in this statement wouldn't work.

This is how "too" is used according to dictionary.com:

1. In addition; also: He's coming along too.
2. More than enough; excessively: She worries too much.
3. To a regrettable degree: My error was all too apparent.
4. Very; extremely; immensely: He's only too willing to be of service.
5. Informal. Indeed; so: You will too do it!

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True, true.

I applaud your desire to care about words.

It's funny how the people from my country are such nitpickers when it comes to English grammar and syntax when it's not even our mother tongue. We tend to be unforgiving when it comes to grammatical errors, I think even more than Americans. Bad eh?

yeeah I'm a grammar freak. It bugs me when people use the wrong "to" or "too", but not as much as when people say "less" when they should say "fewer" (I hate that!) or use "there" when it should be "they're" or "their".
Ack, my mom was an English teacher before she had me, and I think she rubbed off on me too much. But now my good friend corrects me when I use bad grammar, so I can blame her for my pickiness also.

"to" is a preposition.

gecKo said:

yeeah I'm a grammar freak. It bugs me when people use the wrong "to" or "too", but not as much as when people say "less" when they should say "fewer" (I hate that!) or use "there" when it should be "they're" or "their".
Ack, my mom was an English teacher before she had me, and I think she rubbed off on me too much. But now my good friend corrects me when I use bad grammar, so I can blame her for my pickiness also.

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Oh my goodness. I totally relate. And should we even talk about YOUR and YOU'RE???? There was an ad in a local paper, and they had 5 or 6 towns with arrows saying five or six times "Your only 5 miles away from blah blah business...." (It should have been YOU'RE as in YOU ARE). I called the place up and asked to speak to their advertising person. When I talked to them, they said that the ad had been placed over the phone, so the mistake had to be on the paper's end...Can you imagine?! An advertising/marketing major not knowing when to use the right YOUR/YOU'RE???!!! Yup; I'm totally a nerd. My husband always has me proofread his business letters, because he knows I'm so picky! I always catch his grammar/spelling mistakes!!! Maybe I should be an English major...

hehe i love it. People in print businesses and also speaking professions make errors all the time... I just don't understand it.

hehe.. I'm not THAT picky, but it's terribly funny when big things make mistakes.

I got a letter, because of my 4.0 at the community college , from the Dean of Education or something like that, inviting me to join Sigma Gamma Phi or something like that. Anyways, in one part of the letter, it went like this.

"....Sigma Gamma Phi. As a part of Sigma Gama Phi.."

Mispelled it only a few words away, hehe

heh nice. At work, we have this computer program which the District Manager ("the big guy") wrote - it keeps track of all the money stuff and whatnot in all of the stores for this franchise - so it's a super important program about company sales. Anyways... he misspelled credit cards as "credet." My manager said she would bawl him out for me.

(btw i like your signature paulewog)

JoieDeVivre said:

It's funny how the people from my country are such nitpickers when it comes to English grammar and syntax when it's not even our mother tongue. We tend to be unforgiving when it comes to grammatical errors, I think even more than Americans. Bad eh?

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Heh. Caus I is a gud Englush major, I kan rite howiver I want. Il start my sentenses witha "but" an a "and". An Il drop my prepisishons in weerd plases, like with. An Il put, a few commas, just, anywhir, I, pleez.

My conclushion? Hukt on Fonix wurkt fer me!

Bedwyr