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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

'too ~ to' vs 'too ~ that'

I saw sentences used with the clause 'too~that' in place of the phrase 'too~to' on another site several times.

ex) I am too tired that I study until midnight.

I'd like to know whether the clause 'too~that' is quite the thing in the spoken English.
In advance, thank you for your help.
  

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park sang joon ex) I am too tired that I study until midnight. I don't know where you picked up these sentences. No that is not a correct pattern.

  • park sang joon ex) I am too tired that I study until midnight.
  • I don't know where you picked up these sentences.
  • No that is not a correct pattern.
  • The meaning of your sentence is not immediately clear.
  • I am guessing: I am too tired to study and you wanted to do it till midnight.
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park sang joonex) I am too tired that I study until midnight.
I don't know where you picked up these sentences. No that is not a correct pattern. The meaning of your sentence is not immediately clear.
I am guessing: I am too tired to study and you wanted to do it till midnight.
I don't believe there is such pattern as " too -that" in written or spoke
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park sang joonex) I am too tired that I study until midnight.
I've never heard or seen such a construction before. I wonder where you've taken that example from. Doesn't that sound very odd to you, PSJ?

What I normally hear and/see is: I'm too tired to study until midnight. OR I'm so tired that I
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Thank you, Laborious.
I have seen it clearly in the past.
By any case, Have you seen that sentences used with the word 'then' in place of the word 'than'?
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park sang joonI have seen it clearly in the past.
You surely have, but as I said in my previous reply, I haven't. ..
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Thank you Laborious.
I meant it, for example : You are taller then me.
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park sang joonYou are taller then me.
That's wrong, psj. That has to be You are taller than me. That shouldn't be "You are taller then me". We always use 'than', not 'then' with a comparative degree of an adjective. Thus, She's smarter than her elder sister. Jason has more money th
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park sang joonI meant it, for example : You are taller then me.
Taller than, richer than, NEVER "then".
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Thank you Laborious.
I know but have seen sentences like that on another site several times.
Haven't you ever seen a sentence like that at all?
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park sang joonHaven't you ever seen a sentence like that at all?
No.
park sang joonI know but have seen sentences like that on another site several times.
Could you please post links to those sites at which you've seen those examples?
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The site is such a thing as R 18 so I can't; sorry~

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