Monday 15 October 2012

Difference between “Also” and “Too”

An English Guide

Yesterday, my student asked me about difference between “Also” and “Too” while both are having, literally, same meaning.
I answered her that from the point of view of conversation both can be interchangeably used with the notion of “in addition”. Like in following two sentences.
He played too.
He played also.
In second sentence “also” at the end looks not much natural.
It can be said again like…
He also played.
It can be summarized as, “Also” is should be used before verb, while on other hand, “Too” should be used at the end.



Adjective Modifier: Some times “Too” is used as adjective modifier.
It can be seen in following sentence.
This tea is too hot to drink.
In the above sentence, “too” is giving the sense of “to higher degree than desired”.



Can you see the difference between two sentence given below?
I love you too.
I love you too much.
In first sentence too is giving the sense of “in addition”. While in second sentence it is showing the degree of love.
 So we can conclude that “Also” is normally used before the verb, “Too” is used at the end of sentence.



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