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Cherryblossom Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
Help please
I have a Japanese friend in Japan teaching English and she wrote me this email the other day asking for advice.........
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When I worked for Kumon writing English-study videos and their texts, we had a boss who insisted that "too" MUST be preceded by a comma, e.g.,
"Me, too."
I explained that the presence of the comma depended on the desired meaning.
For example,
1. ["She's beautiful."] ***"She's smart, too."***
=She is beautiful and also smart."
2. ["He's smart."] ***"She's smart too." ***
=He is smart and she is also smart."
We might take a view that "too" with the comma addresses the predicate,
while "too" without the comma addresses the subject.
Can anyone out there help her???? 'Cause I sure can't
thanks for your help
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When I worked for Kumon writing English-study videos and their texts, we had a boss who insisted that "too" MUST be preceded by a comma, e.g.,
"Me, too."
I explained that the presence of the comma depended on the desired meaning.
For example,
1. ["She's beautiful."] ***"She's smart, too."***
=She is beautiful and also smart."
2. ["He's smart."] ***"She's smart too." ***
=He is smart and she is also smart."
We might take a view that "too" with the comma addresses the predicate,
while "too" without the comma addresses the subject.
Can anyone out there help her???? 'Cause I sure can't
thanks for your help
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Hello Cheeryblossom Hello, I, too, am a learner from Japan. It's warm today in Japan, but this spring it is rather colder than usual, don't you think so? I'm afraid we can't see cherry-blossoms until the beginning of April.
- Hello Cheeryblossom Hello, I, too, am a learner from Japan.
- It's warm today in Japan, but this spring it is rather colder than usual, don't you think so?
- I'm afraid we can't see cherry-blossoms until the beginning of April.
- As to your question, we got quite recently a question of the same sort as yours from a Japanese person, and our moderators (English teaching native speakers) discussed about it.
- I've looked back for it in stocked past threads but in vain.
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Hello Cheeryblossom
Hello, I, too, am a learner from Japan. It's warm today in Japan, but this spring it is rather colder than usual, don't you think so? I'm afraid we can't see cherry-blossoms until the beginning of April.
As to your question, we got quite recently a question of the same sort as yours from a Japanese person, and our moderators (English teaching native speak
Hello, I, too, am a learner from Japan. It's warm today in Japan, but this spring it is rather colder than usual, don't you think so? I'm afraid we can't see cherry-blossoms until the beginning of April.
As to your question, we got quite recently a question of the same sort as yours from a Japanese person, and our moderators (English teaching native speak
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