Why is it that people cannot seem TO grasp the simple adverb expressing an excess of something or in addition TO something?
I like that TOO.
That soup was TOO hot.
That is TOO cool!
He is TOO nice.
That item is TOO old.
My error was all TOO apparent.
He’s young, clever, and rich TOO.
They came TO the house.
He grew TO six feet.
Apply varnish TO the surface.
The flowers opened TO the sun.
He tore it TO pieces.
How hard it this???
This is the SINGLE MOST misused piece of grammar I’ve seen online and it’s only getting worse. I’m seeing it more and more in context with otherwise intelligent and grammatically correct dialogs. It’s scary when you are tooling along reading a really nicely written article and then it becomes littered with that person using TO instead of TOO throughout the article.
I know it’s only one letter, but wasn’t that the whole point of learning grammar in the first place? TO understand that misplacing or omitting one letter changed the meaning of a word or phrase? Is this TOO hard to learn these days?
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What’s the point, right?
Using shorthand spelling when using a cell phone or blackberry is one thing. The letter keys are small and you’re usually in transit while typing, so shorthand spelling is forgiven. But full out blog comments and articles written on computers with a full keyboard is just lazy and ignorant. And my grip isn’t even with using shorthand in blogs or emails either. I use then sometimes TOO. It’s when someone is typing a regular post or email and they are using standard grammar, but they still use TO for everything!!!!
It just drives me nuts.