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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

us too

Hi,
I know you can say "me too" in cases like "I'm hungry" - "Me too".
But I don't think you can say "He too", "She too", you need to repeat the auxiliary verb, "He does too", "He is too", etc.

However, I just heard "Us too".

Are "Me too" and "Us too" the only cases where "too" is used without repeating the auxiliary verb?
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, but much less frequently than "me too". This may be because there are many fewer opportunities to affirm X on Y's part or behalf than on our own. All the best, MrP

— MrPedantic

  • , but much less frequently than "me too".
  • This may be because there are many fewer opportunities to affirm X on Y's part or behalf than on our own.
  • All the best, MrP
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Hello Kooyeen,

You do hear "them too", "him too", etc., but much less frequently than "me too".

This may be because there are many fewer opportunities to affirm X on Y's part or behalf than on our own.

All the best,

MrP
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The whole conjugation (with object pronouns) is available:

me too, you too, him too, her too, us too, you too, them too.

But I don't think I've ever heard the interrogative, Whom too?
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Wow, I didn't know that, thank you.

So it is interesting to notice that the positive short forms are possible (me too, us too, them too, etc.), but the negative ones are not (only "me neither" is possible, but not "us neither", "them meither", or somethng else like that). You have to repeat the auxiliary verb, so that you have "We can't either", "Neither do we", etc.
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The negatives are also available. "Not used much" or "hardly ever used" isn't the same as "impossible"!

CJ
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