BulletInjection Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 (edited) It hurts my head reading some of the people's posts on here... It does get trickier towards the end but please bare with me and consider the following. "A" goes before all words that begin with consonants. a cat a dog a purple onion a buffalo a big apple With one exception: Use "an" before unsounded h. an honorable peace an honest error "An" goes before all words that begin with vowels: an apricot an egg an Indian an orbit an uprising With two exceptions: When u makes the same sound as the y in you, or o makes the same sound as w in won, then a is used. a union a united front a unicorn a used napkin a U.S. ship a one-legged man To and too are often listed in lists of the most confusing word pairs along with other homophones like your/you’re, buy/by, miner/minor, weather/whether, their/they’re/there, and stationary/stationery. This article will help you understand the different uses of to and too, which may help you keep them distinct. Too Too is an adverb, and two different meanings give it two different distinct placements. Too meaning excessively, to an excessive degree You worry too much. Isn’t it just too obvious? In these cases, the adverb too precedes an adjective. Too meaning also, in addition Zelda is coming too. Don’t forget to buy red onions too. To The confusion about to and too comes from two obvious facts: the words look very much alike, the only difference being that too has one more o than to, and they sound exactly alike. Their distinct origins - to comes from Old English tō from Indo-European, while too had an extra step in Middle English - is just not salient and memorable for most people to remember. It’s their meanings and use in sentences that set them apart. So let’s focus on the meaning aspect. To is a particle. The infinitive in English consists of two parts: the particle to and the verb. Here are four infinitives: to giggle to chuckle to snigger to laugh If you see to before a verb, as above, it’s acting as part of the infinitive. Too never does that. Gretchen snickered when Hannah said she wanted to order fish and chips. To climb Mount Everest takes guts. To used as a particle and too used to modify a following adjective can look deceptively similar: Edna went to work. Charles arrived too late. You may have to actually stop and think: to before a verb or a prepositional phrase; too before an adjective to keep them separate in your mind. To is a preposition. Definitions of preposition are not very clear, which might be one reason why it’s hard to distinguish to and too. The definitions of prepositions say things like “connects a substantive with a verb, adjective or other substantive.” It’s really hard to tell what that means. Usually people just learn a group of standard prepositions, like above about after around at before behind beside beyond for from in near of off on over past through under until upon with without and remember that they introduce prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases can be either adjectival or adverbial phrase. Simply put, they can either modify nouns: the lady with the forty-two orange scarves (“with the forty-two orange scarves” tells which lady) or they can modify verbs: was running through the spiky thorn bushes (“through the spiky thorn bushes” tells where the running was taking place). It’s fairly easy to identify to as a preposition in sentences that have prepositional phrases. Ernesto skateboarded to the gym. Pauline spoke to her teacher. To is an anaphor. Sorry! Anaphor is not commonly taught, but it’s an important use of to and one that’s often confused with too, because it can come at the end of a sentence. An anaphor is simply a word that stands in for another word or group of words. There is one type of anaphor that you’ve probably heard of: pronoun. A pronoun stands in for a noun or noun phrase. Well, pronoun is a member of the anaphor group. Yes, group: there are other words that can act as anaphors, and the particle to is one of them. Here’s how it works: First a phrase beginning with an infinitive appears, say: to get up early and catch the bus to the fish market Then, there’s a reference back to it in which to stands for the entire phrase so it doesn’t all have to be repeated. In these cases, to usually ends the sentence. Gillian plans to get up early and catch the bus to the fish market, but I certainly don’t plan to. THIS IS NOT A DANGLING PREPOSITION! It can’t be, because it’s not a prepositional use of to! But, because the to comes at the end of the sentence, where we are used to seeing too meaning “in addition,” we may unthinkingly substitute one for the other. Obviously I did not type all of this and all context in the regards of "to vs. too" is a publication of education bug and that regarding a vs. an are publications of Purdue. http://www.educationbug.org/a/to-vs--too.html http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/591/1/ Edited February 9, 2011 by BulletInjection Quote My build: http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/ind...8920&st=100 http://www.youtube.com/Bulletinjection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford302Redneck Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 (edited) Personally, if somebody is close on their sentence structure, it doesn't matter to me. Fact is, I know I don't use perfect English. But no punctuation, no capital letters, and horrible miss spelling, I won't even read it. Edited February 9, 2011 by Ford302Redneck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdorre Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 This is a much needed thread! Maybe someone can add "there, their and they're." lulz Quote On 5/8/2011 at 7:38 PM, Kranny said: On 5/8/2011 at 7:35 PM, 'Maxim' said: It hurts me inside when I read stuff like this and remember you're 15 LMFAO so true Mitsubishi 3000GT (Old Build) Headunit: Pioneer 80PRS Frontstage: (2) McLaren Audio MLT-2 Tweeters & (4) PRV Audio MR Series Neo 6.5" Mids Substage: 4 15" Hybrid Subs - Tantric Motors & Sundown Softies Amps: Banda 2.4D Amp (Tweets), American Bass VFL 350.4 (Mids), and (2) Ampere 3800s Electrical :Singer 260A Alt & JY Power Lithium 2005 Chevy Colorado Ext Cab Headunit: Pioneer 80PRS Frontstage: 4 PRV 700Ti Tweets & 6 10" Delta Mids on 3000wrms Substage: 6 Fi BTL 18s in a 4th Order Walkthrough on 3 Wolfram 4500s Electrical: Singer "390" and JY Power My Official Feedback Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nCOMP1337 Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 quite the detailed message, but i do see many that could use a lesson, i just dont say anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 do not give a shit crew checking in Quote you can cook bacon shirtless if you're not a pussy...lol not hatin, but am i wrong here it looks as if the amp is not grounded its hooked directly to the battery. it that the way it should be. DC POWER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletInjection Posted February 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 do not give a shit crew checking in Everyone needs a home. People using to and too incorrectly drives me nuts. I just hope a few people read it and maybe learn something. And Georgia has bumped up to 40th worst in education! We are retards with a goal huh!? http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_bes_edu_ind-education-best-educated-index Quote My build: http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/ind...8920&st=100 http://www.youtube.com/Bulletinjection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carroot1 Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 thanks for an spelling lesson! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Fizzy Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 thanks for an spelling lesson! I see what you did thar. Quote under construction I hate People with crappy primered cars rolling on hubcaps that are louder then me. u hate c-fizzy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finkster Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 There.....refers to placement....over there.... Their...refers to ownership...their car... They're...refers to they are.... Quote DAT 4125------>RE XXX comps active Eclipse cd7000 I serve drunks for a living Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zayres29 Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 i think it has a lot to do with where people are from because not just english speaking americans use this site some people have english as a second language and it is hard for them to translate but i can understand where you are coming from Quote Btw that was the first person. Ever banned by me while dropping a deuce. Feel privileged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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