When do I use ‘to’ and when do I use ‘too’?
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I’m going to the park.
Are you going to eat that?
He’s just going to have to learn to live with it!
Welcome to our house.
However, TOO is another word for ALSO, or something excessive.
She’s coming over, too.
I hate math, too.
There’s just too much rum in this cake!
Can I come too?
Too many people showed up for the concert, and we sold out of tickets.
“To” is a preprosition of direction and is properly the beginning of a prepositional phrase, as in — Let’s go to the show.
When you overeat or overdrink, you have more than you need, TOO much. Notice it has more O than it needs. It can mean ALSO–still TOO much. I had this, ALSO this, ALSO this, ALSO this, and got a stomache ache because I had TOO much.
So TO is the shortest route TO someplace, and TOO is TOO much of a good thing.
I’m not a good teacher, but I hope this helps some! 🙂
too=too many,greater than,(there is way too much salt in my food or that is really way too high)
Too, means also
Two is the number.
English is so confusing even when its your native language.
“She walked to the store to get two lemons and four limes, too.”
-preposition
“He gave the flowers to his mother.”
-direction
“We will go to the mall.”
TOO:
-likewise, also
“My friend is pretty and intelligent too.”
-in excess, over
“You got too much money.”
“It is too dark in here!”
Indicating a destination of someone, something.
I went ‘to’ ~ I am going ‘to’
Will you be coming to the store ‘too’
Indicating also, as well as.
Will you be coming to the store ~ also ~ as well.
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