To & too when writing a letter.

For too think as well as, also. To is going to writing to.

HTH :-)

To is used most commonly after a Verb, going to, writing to, talking to, etc

Too means .. also, as well as, in conjuction with etc

edited to add..

Too can also be used to emphasize.. Too hard.. Too difficult.. Too much etc

Too generally means ..as well as.
As in......... If I go to a dog show will you come too?

The other To is in the same sentence...If I go to a dog show will you come too.
In this case it's an action..to do something...even sentences like.... "I'd love to"...(actually means I'd love to go to the dog show but just shortened).

Too much
Too many
Too big

To the vet
to be clever
to agree

is the person asking this a native english speaker? Im quite surprised....this is basic schoolboy level english.

It maybe basic but sometime people do have difficulties in language and grammar especially if for instance they have dyslexia ( not saying tricolours does) so it is not uncommon for some people to ask questions like this. Sometime it is also just a case of forgetting as well and maybe because Tricolours is a girl and didn't so school boy English :-P

Maybe basic but I was never taught any grammer at school and sometimes find things like this difficult when under pressure to get it right, and I am not thick!! My sister was a year ahead of me at school and she was taught all these things!

English was the only subject I was any good at and I did manage 'o' levels at literature & language (although way back in 1979 !)...................however, to & too are still words I have to think about and I'm never 100% sure I'm always right.

Thanks everyone. It was a long time ago since i went to school (is that the right to?) and i just couldn't remember,

Maybe it is basic, but some of us, myself included occasionally get a bit of brain drain where we just can't remember certain things :)

I have problems with there and their

> get a bit of brain drain where we just can't remember certain things

I very often get halfway through typing a word and lose my way!  It's not that I can't spell it but that I get carried away ...hence availability often becomes availabilility (and then you can't see what you typed because the i's and l's get wobbly in front of your eyes)

However, the right spelling sometimes just looks odd when you start to really concentrate on it, and then there are words like separate and desperate which are so easy to get wrong, even without trying :)

It's probably an age thingy .....way back [when wheels were square] we would have english lessons where we would have to use two to too, now know, there, their & they're, sew so in their correct versions in sentences.   Use a word in the wrong place and you'd get set 50 lines or a rap across the knuckles with a ruler depending upon which teacher was in charge - and this was at age 8!

Surprising how clearly one focuses when it means staying in at playtime, or nursing sore knuckles!   

>Surprising how clearly one focuses when it means staying in at playtime, or nursing sore knuckles!   

It concentrated the mind marvellously. :-)

Surprising how clearly one focuses when it means staying in at playtime, or nursing sore knuckles!

However I grew up in a country where any kind of physical punishment on any child, your own or others, was (and is) illegal, and in school we did not get any form of grades at all until we were 13. I started learning English at age 9 in school and I am far better at both spelling and grammar than my husband who is English (and went to school in England) is -and he's in his mid 50's. So I don't think there is one simple answer unless it is that some people just find it easier to learn languages than others. :) I found the Swedish lessons effortless, the tests I never studied for, spelling and grammar I didn't ever bother even looking up, because it all just came to me naturally. But I know full well it wasn't as easy as that for everyone.

The problem here is that we are not really taught grammar beyond primary school. English at high school has very little to do with the language IME and is more to do with literature etc. I knew more about Latin and French grammar than I ever did about English grammar and my daughter learned more in German and Spanish than in English. I know it drives modern language teachers mad that children are not explicitly taught grammar in English classes.

I have problems with there and their

There - in that place - the dog is over there
their - belonging to them - Fluffy is their dog
they're - they are - they're at a dog show

:-)

A lot also depends on the teacher (and if the teacher knows any grammar as well :) ). As an eleven year old I went up to my form room early before school. My form teacher was sitting in the room. I knocked on the door and went in - 'Can I come in Miss XX ? ' The answer was 'Now go back outside and come in again, Daisy. Of course you CAN come in, but whether you MAY come in is a different matter' :) :) I have never forgotten that lesson and the difference between can and may :) :)

Daisy

> Surprising how clearly one focuses when it means staying in at playtime, or nursing sore knuckles!
>
> However I grew up in a country where any kind of physical punishment on any child, your own or others, was (and is) illegal<

Don't think for one minute that I am saying it is the ideal way to learn - that I'm certainly not!

But the lesson was learned - and really I think we need to give these exercises to our own children so that they get them firmly fixed in their minds.   Like Daisy with can and may - my teacher (1st year grammar) gave us the following statement ("I shall drown and nobody will save me" - accident - "I will drown and nobody shall save me" - suicide!!

I often find good with English, not so good with Maths.

I find it funny that my friend asks me,is it too, to or two. Is it different or differant!!

But she can add a row of figures at a glance. She can not understand why others need a calculator, or in my case, a few minutes !