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Rule "to/two (too) late/soon/much"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	to/two (too) late/soon/much
Message:	Did you mean <suggestion>too</suggestion>?
Category:	Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/word-choice-to-too-two/#when-to-use-%E2%80%9Ctoo%E2%80%9D
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	She returned to quickly. Correction suggestion: too ... but it did what we wanted to slowly. Correction suggestion: too
Correct sentences for comparison:	The nights were cool to chilly. We didn't know what they were exposed to before. You might be staring at a long list of potential fixes which typically get postponed to later. It is an hour's drive from here to there. What was he up to then? ... window dressing; City Hall will do what it wants to anyhow. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside_(Alaska)]: The Alaska Rail network is not connected to Outside. Adjective. ...and reduce his studies to part-time. There's no reason to not go there. I can show you how to properly drive a car. Set that field to Yes. For example, the sentence "the gain of a system should be doubled", without context, means close to nothing. It begins to rapidly increase. I don't know what he is referring to here. Something to multiply. I wish I could re-schedule it to tomorrow. I'm no one to bully. From monthly to annually. You should take the train to nowhere. Remember to always: I don't want to either. The train to there. Where to afterwards? I may be switching to Mondays. … until August 2008 when it returned to Saturdays. A song that he listened to sometimes. He has a huge stack of mail he hasn't gotten to yet.
ID:	TO_TOO [19]
Version:	6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-23 22:33:10 +0100)