Hello, everyone I am Ria and in today's lesson we will look at the word 'too' , now please
don't confuse it because it sounds the same as another word too, which is to an and the
number two, but today we will talk about the word too which is spelled too.
Let's first look at what actually 'too' means, when you are talking about the word too or
when you are using it in a sentence, we want to talk about the degree of something being
excessive, okay degree of something being excessive or it is more that what is needed.
Let's look at the sentence, let's describe the day. It's hot, okay let's look at at he
sentence , it's hot, okay it's a hot day, it's a summer day, so you are probably going
out for you know basking in the sun but it is probably 5 or 8 degrees more hot or 5 or
8 degrees hotter, would you like to go in the sun? definitely not, it would be too hot,
you might actually fry in the sun, right? Well in that case it is too hot, it is excessive
, it is more than what is needed by you, so that's how we will describe the word hot,
It's too hot. When it's hot, its bearable, when it's too hot, it's excessive more than
what is needed, you don't really want to go out there, right? Let's look at these sentences,
now firstly let me explain to you, In this lesson we will talk about Too added to an
adjective , Too added to an adverb and Too added to nouns whether it is countable nouns
or uncountable nouns. Let's look at the first one . Too with an adjective, now please understand
that an adjective is a describing word okay, and always remember that too will be added
before the adjective, let's look at the sentences, This dress is long. Imagine that I bought
dress , lovely white dress, okay, it comes umm... I prefer it to be knee length only,
so for me the dress, this dress is long, I am okay with, i mean quite comfortable, but
if I bought the dress and it is probably seven or eight inches longer and I don't want it
a dress that is that long, okay. It is more than what is needed or more than what I wanted,
so it is too long, add the word too before the adjective to denote that the dress is
too long or it is more than what is needed. Looking at the second sentence -That car is
small for his family. Now imaging a small car, okay a four seater car and you have a
family of five, now if you buy a car which is four seater car, now probably with five
members , one can just push into the back , in the back seat so probably it would be
okay for the family but what if the family has 6 members, would it be comfortable for
the entire 6 members to fit in that small car, definitely not. In that case that car
is too small for the family, okay The family needs a bigger car. To describe that situation
you have to put too before the adjective small, okay. To describe the car and how small it
is for the family. Let's look at the second one - Too plus adverb, hopefully you know
what adverbs are. Adverbs modifies the verb, okay. Now also remember that when you are
using the word too, it would be added before the adverb. Now let's look at the sentence,
let's pin point the adverb in the sentence - He is driving slowly. Now slowly is an adverb
and driving is a verb, okay so I had a friend who was driving on the highway and he was
driving at 20 km per hour , now that's too slow. He is actually holding up the traffic,
right? So, He is driving slowly, but if it is excessively slow, it's too slow, something
that is not needed, okay that is when we use the word too, and always remember that is
going to be before the adverb. So you have the verb then you will have the word too and
then you will have the adverb. So he is driving too slowly. It denotes how much more slowly
that person is driving. Looking at the second sentence - The teacher dictates fast. Imagine
in a class where a teacher is giving notes and all the students have to note down the
lecture, so if she is dictating fast, probably she is speaking... I mean she is speaking
quickly and you able to grasp probably about 80 words out of 100 words, so she is dictating
fast and you are able to actually grasp 80 percent, what if she is dictating too fast
and you are only able to catch 40 words out of the 100 words , it's very difficult for
you, you are not able to complete the notes that she is giving, so she is dictating too
fast. In this instance the teacher dictates fast, fast being an adverb and dictates being
a verb, we will use the word too just before the adverb to denote that she dictates too
fast. I hope you have grasped as to how you will use too with an adjective and too with
an adverb. Now we will look at how we can use too with nouns, whether it's countable
nouns or uncountable nouns. Earlier we saw too with adjectives and with adverbs, now
we will see too with nouns whether they are countable or uncountable, always remember
the first rule that we saw earlier as well too will come before the countable noun and
too will come before the uncountable noun. Now let's look at this sentence - I have bought
dresses in the sale. Dresses denote countable noun, now countable nouns, what are they?
These are nouns that you are able to count like bus, you have one bus, two buses, three
buses, four buses, you have chair, table, pen, if you are counting a pen, you have one
pen, I have one pen in my hand, there are two pens on the table or three pens on the
chair. So this is how we are going to describe a countable noun. Looking at the sentence
- I have bought dresses in the sale, now I went to the sale and the discount was around
70 percent, now that's amazing, isn't it? So what I thought, Oh I like that dress, and
I like that dress as well and that dress as well, so I kind of packed my shopping cart
and I bought lot of dresses. Now how do I describe that? Shall I say - I have bought
too dresses in the sale, now that doesn't right actually. Another word that has to be
added, in case of countable nouns add the word 'many' - I have bought ... Probably I
shouldn't write with this pen, I should write with the other one - I have bought too and
as I said with countable noun it's going to be many, so too many dresses in the sale.
Now that sounds right, if you don't add the word many, it doesn't sound okay. So, I have
bought too dresses in the sale ... no... I have bought too many dresses in the sale.
Now that denotes that I have bought excessively, I bought a lot of dresses, more dresses that
what was actually needed. Let's look at the second sentence - There are cars on the road.
Now cars denote countable noun, probably there is a traffic jam and on the road you see so
many cars, right? There are lot of cars on the street, so how will you describe that,
you will say - There are too ... again... many cars on the road. Not there are too cars
on the road, there are too many cars on the road. I hope that is much more clearer now.
Let's look at too plus uncountable nouns. Now let's look at the sentence first - I added
sugar in the coffee, okay so sugar is an uncountable noun something.. a noun that you are not able
to count, like you have sugar, you have oil, you have water, noise which you are not able
to count, you can't say - I heard one noise, two noises and three noises, you are not able
to count it, right? So sugar is an uncountable noun, now let's use the word too in the sentence
- I added too sugar in the coffee, no with an uncountable you will use the word 'much'
, that is different from countable nouns, with countable nouns you will use the word
'many' but with uncountable you will use the word 'much', okay. I added too much sugar
in the coffee. Now that sounds quiet alright. Looking at the second sentence - There is
noise in the class. Possibly you go into a classroom, you have about 50 students in the
classroom and there are not able to keep quite, they are making a lot of noise, everybody
is screaming and playing and talking on the top of their voices, so you will say - There
is too noise in the class, no you will add the word 'much'. There is too much noise in
the class. Now that denotes , actually denotes a lot of noise in the class. I hope you have
understood this, okay. Too plus uncountable noun.. oops sorry.. countable noun that is
and too plus uncountable noun. With a countable noun you will use too plus many and with uncountable
noun you will use the word too plus much. I hope this lesson has been much more clearer
to you, I hope you are able to use the word 'too' properly in your sentences, in your
daily conversation. This brings me to the end of the lesson, I hope you have understand
today's topic and I will see next time with a new and fresh lesson, take care..