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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

also vs too

0I understand the difference between the two as follows:02br
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00A: I love you02br
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00B: I love you too02br
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00"I also love you" would be wrong unless B said he loves another person before telling A the same thing.02br
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00However, look at the following02br
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01i00If I am facing you, you're also facing me.02i02br
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00Based on my understanding, I would choose to use 01i00too 02i00over 01i00also02i00.02br
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00What do you think?02br
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00Thanks in advance!0-
  

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0I think I've seen this discussed before. 02br 02br 01i 01u 00I also love you02u 02i 00, as you say, should not replace B, but is ambiguous in the use you propose. 0-

— Avangi

  • 0I think I've seen this discussed before.
  • 02br 02br 01i 01u 00I also love you02u 02i 00, as you say, should not replace B, but is ambiguous in the use you propose.
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0I think I've seen this discussed before. Check the search.02br
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00A/B would be clear with either 01i01u00also02u02i00 or 01i01u00too02u02i00, because of the question/answer thing.02br
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01i01u00I also love you02u02i00, as you say, should no
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0The old posts on this topic seem to agree with you. 02br
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00My last question in the original post refers to :02br
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01i00If I'm facing you, you are also facing me.02i02br
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00Is there ambiguity in this sentence? I feel that 01i00too02i00 is more appropriate because 01i00also0
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0I think I understand your question. You think to face someone is to be "face to face." I don't think so. If you face the wall, does the wall face you?02br
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00If someone has his back to you, you can say, "Turn around and face me!" That sort of implies face-to-face, but I suppose you could turn your back to him before he turns around.02br
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0 I'm sorry, Avangi. I think I confused you with my expl 0-
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0I hope that doesn't mean you're giving up! Straighten me out!0-
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0Actually I was replying to your post when I accidentally hit some keys and it got posted. Well, actually it was not an accident, I don't know what the problem is but I have been experiencing this problem especially when I start typing before the reply page finishes loading. So I edited the unfinished post and tried to post and the server said I had exceeded the time for edit and I lost my post
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0It's the ******01b00 IF02b00 that's driving me to distraction, as my mother used to say. (not the "******")02br
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00I think you're wrong. If you'll note what I said in the first post, "I love you." (reply) "I love you too." It's almost impossible to ***** this up by switching the order of the words or substituting "also" for "too." Almost any wa
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0But your sentence structure is driving me nutz. Why are you using the "if"? Why don't you do it like the "I love you" example??02br
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00Two sentences, two statements: "I'm facing you." "You'r[also] facing me [too]."02br
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00Actually I borrowed the sentence from Clive. Well, I have no problem with removing the if, probably I should have but it does
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0You've got to help me out on this. It makes no sense to me. Tell me where it is so I can look at it. Please.02br
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00I can't find it with the search tool02br
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00I've searched my dictionaries, and I can find no such meaning for "face" where it requires the other person to face you.02br
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00"Face to face" is a separate term,
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0Hi Avangi,02br
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00Do you mean you want to look at Clive's post where I took the sentence from?02br
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00It's here:05002br
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00Actually, I don't understand why you relate face to face to the sentence. Either I don't understand you or I must have confused you again. 0260hrefhttp://www.EnglishForward.com/English/ProblemsF
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