| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
The patiency I felt, the speed I got answers on two preceeding foolish
question encourages me to carry on...
What is the difference between too/as well/also?
I know that "too" should be used at the end of the sentence but is
there any difference in meaning? Maybe one is elegant while the other
for has the smell of primitive "harbour" English?
Joska
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| 1142.1 | How about "TOO" as "EXCEEDINGLY"? | RICKS::PHIPPS | DTN 225.4959 | Wed May 31 1995 10:42 | 4 |
If used as "exceedingly" or "far more than" it would not have to come at the end of a sentence. "We have too many students in this classroom" mhp | |||||
| 1142.2 | You're right, but... | BPSOF::GYONGYOSI | Wed May 31 1995 23:15 | 2 | |
You're right, but it's a different meaning of the word!
GyJ
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| 1142.3 | That's too true. | RICKS::PHIPPS | DTN 225.4959 | Thu Jun 01 1995 05:44 | 0 |
| 1142.4 | SMURF::BINDER | Father, Son, and Holy Spigot | Thu Jun 01 1995 07:44 | 8 | |
Even when meaning also, too need not be used only at the end of a
sentence, and you too will recognize this fact upon reading this very
sentence.
Both too and also are adverbs, not conjunctions, despite many apparent
usages of them as conjunctions. The most common of these misuses casts
also in the place of "as well as," which phrase is actually a
conjunction.
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| 1142.5 | That's true, too... | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Wed Jun 07 1995 20:10 | 1 |
| 1142.6 | GIDDAY::BURT | DPD (tm) | Wed Jun 07 1995 21:31 | 2 | |
If a guru had a chew chew on a tu tu that would be two chews too many. | |||||