Grammar 101..

[counter]

I don't know how is best to use the words too vs to and would like some help better understanding how "to" do so.  I feel like I missed a day of English class when all of this was covered in my younger years and it's now time to catch up.   

To my limited understanding I think too should take the place of the word also, or atleast that is how I've come look at it.  I'd like to be more grammatically correct with my words and would like anyone knowledgeable and willing to help me and others that may have the same issues better understand what is right way to use these words. 

This can also be about common mistakes you notice but for now let's try and keep it simple please so that people actually learn something instead of feeling intimated by the intellect or another and don't bother learning anything.  I'm also confused about words that spell check underlines as a word that has been spelled incorrectly.  For example atleast is underlined when I type it out but I think that is how it's spelled, am I incorrect?  Things of this nature is what I'd liked to be discussed, please and thanks for your help in advance..

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[pekv2]

I never got to and too as well. i just use "to". Sometime too will click in my head and I will use it but mainly I use "to" It's to hard for me to understand between the two.

I know how to use their, there, then & than.

[roslinpl]

I use a lot of 'to' and 'too'.

It helps me to translate my Polish thought into English understandable for you and for others too.

Maybe it isn't too good to use those two too much but I like to do it anyway.

Good luck to you and you too

Two tea to room two and twenty two too

[cookiemonsterwhat]

I never got this message too. 

Grammar is a beautiful thing. Especially, when using their or there. Like their hand phone is over there on the couch. Simply describes another persons phone is at a certain location.

[gogxmagog]

I never had a problem with to and too, but I can't seem to ever spell their correctly. I never confuse they're, there, and their, but I have to stop and remind myself every time I write the possessive their because my instinct is to always spell it "thier"

worrying about it just seems to continue the confusion and "i before e except after c" does not apply in this case. I guess I could be dyslexic, but that's KO with me!

with the amount of unedited text I read every day, from strangers on forums who may or may not be native English speakers, from auto-correct mangled text-messages, to outright intentionally misspelled phrases like "teh funneh" I stopped worrying about correct usage a long time ago. Any grown man who bitches about spelling and grammar obviously has no penis or testicles.

also-I find many non-native English speakers to actually posses greater and more elegant grammar, spelling, and overall English usage skills than most mono-lingual North Americans. We simply lazy.

[kuroman]

to too two
I'm going to the beach
I live bitcoin too much
but is this correct ? I love bitcoin two ? I use instead as well when in doubt in this case, sometimes grammar is not easy for non English speakers like me as some basic grammar rules contradicts the other language I speak

[counter]

Oh boy I now have to focus when I use the word they're haha which is something I never do.  I've been trying to work on you're and now I'm aware that I've over lookd they're. 

I shutter to think of the mistakes I make day in and day out with my posts.  I'll be sure to add my understandings of the words to, too two so hopefully some of you understand it somewhat better.  At least as much as I understand it haha.

[beetcoin]

i hate run-ons more than bad spelling. it starts to break my brain when someone rambles on and i don't know where to stop and where to start.

[rhino34567]

There is absolutely nothing more annoying than seeing people use "your" instead of "you're" or vice-versa. I don't really get annoyed by "to" and "too" unless it completely throws me off what I am reading. Anyway, the first step to correct anything is to identify the problem, so good job on that!

Too: "In addition," "too <adjective>" (Ex: too good, too many, too late. If there's an adjective after it, it's going to be "too")
To: Direction, purpose (Ex: going to, trying to sleep)

[Bicknellski]

When you are ever in doubt about grammar in English it is best to do a collocation of the word or words you are trying to understand in relation to the other words in sentences. Basically you can do a search for sentences with the words and then copy and paste them in excel so that the word you are looking at is in the center cell. Then analyze the position and the words that are around them. From that you can clearly and quickly get the meaning and usage of the word. This is actually how modern dictionaries are created and a lot English language teaching materials and texts are based on this method as well. For example the Collins Cobuild series of dictionaries and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Cobuild-English-Grammar/dp/0007393644 grammar texts.

So in future you can use Concordances, Collocations and Lexical-based Language Analysis to figure out anything in English you are questioning grammatically.


http://corpus2.byu.edu/glowbe/ <--- World's Largest - Download 1.8 billion words of full-text data for GloWbE, or 440 million words of full-text data for COCA. With this data, you will have the corpora on your computer, rather than having to use the web interface. The data comes in three formats: tables for relational databases, word/lemma/PoS (vertical format), or text (linear format).

What is a Collocation?

A collocation is made up of two or more words that are commonly used together in English. Think of collocations as words that usually go together. There are different kinds of collocations in English. Strong collocations are word pairings that are expected to come together. Good collocation examples of this type of word pairing are combinations with 'make' and 'do'. You make a cup of tea, but do your homework. Collocations are very common in business settings when certain nouns are routinely combined with certain verbs or adjectives. For example, draw up a contract, set a price, conduct negotiations, etc.

http://esl.about.com/od/engilshvocabulary/a/collocations.htm


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Be careful though. Errors are present... and that is how grammar actually changes. As more and more people use the word in the "wrong" way it becomes the standard.

[Bicknellski]

Instead of getting told the rule or looking up the rules for grammar usage the best way to remember and use the word properly you need to do an analysis and figure it out on your own and then use it properly based on your understanding of the rule. That way you will internalize it and use properly. If you can see the pattern and understand the reasoning of the pattern you will then use it properly rather than just remembering the "rule".

[hilariousandco]

The correct usage of to and too shouldn't be too difficult to master with a little reading. If you can use they're there and their then you should be ok. http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/too_to.htm

[Bit_Happy]

Have you been online too long?
The future starts with you, are you up to it?
It takes two miners with two ASICS way too long to make one whole BTC.

There are at least two ways to get where you want to go, unless you go way too far then you might end up lost.
^^^
I think those are correct, but some of my skills are a bit too rusty.

[roslinpl]

What is confusing me sometimes it is : were and where

Where have you been? We were here

[hilariousandco]

What is confusing me sometimes it is : were and where

Where have you been? We were here

What about we're too? 

[roslinpl]

What is confusing me sometimes it is : were and where

Where have you been? We were here

What about we're too? 

Oh yes This one is confusing sometimes too

Where were you when we were calling you?
We were outside, we're doing something there (...)

[HYFR]

What is confusing me sometimes it is : were and where

Where have you been? We were here

What about we're too? 

Yes those are both hard.

[hilariousandco]

What is confusing me sometimes it is : were and where

Where have you been? We were here

What about we're too? 

Yes those are both hard.

That's what she said  .

[gagalady]

Two to too, are these words pronounces just exactly the same?

how about these? Their, there they do sound little different?

[Sausage]

What is confusing me sometimes it is : were and where

Where have you been? We were here

What about we're too? 

Yes those are both hard.

That's what she said  .

LOL

Two to too, are these words pronounces just exactly the same?

Yes they're the same.