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

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Description: to/two (too) late/soon/much
Message: Did you mean too?
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.
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ID: TO_TOO [19]
Version: 6.4-SNAPSHOT (2024-03-27 22:33:08 +0100)