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Andyw12345 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Use of too...

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00I am not 00too00 sure whether I will go on holiday this year...02br
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00Many thanks in advance!02br
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0Hi,02br 02br 00Yes, it's OK. 02br 02br 00Clive0-

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0Hi,02br
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0Thanks Clive, so 'too' is correct as opposed to 'to'??02br
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00Andy0-
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0Can anyone help? 02br
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00Thanks, Andy0-
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0Absolutely, 01i00too02i00 instead of 01i00to.02i02br
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00I'm not too sure about this = I don't have a lot of confidence in this.02br
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00Don't be too sure about that! = You very well could be wrong about that.0-
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0 00Thanks very much - is that because too can mean an excess of something and so you are saying you are not excessively (i.e. overly) sure about something?00Many thanks02br
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0Exactly. An excess of "certainty." (Or, in this case, a LACK of this excess of certainty.)0-
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01cite10Andyw1234512cite10is that because too can mean an excess of something and so you are saying you are not excessively (i.e. overly) sure about something?12blockquote
10Yeah, consider other similar structures, where you have a negation in front of something expressing "completeness", "excess", "large amount" ,etc.02b
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