Can you say “he too wanted to do it” or is it better to say “he wanted to do it too”?
English is not my mother tongue and I had an argument with a friend the other day. I think putting the “too” after the subject is not correct. I cannot have a reply and his brother disagrees. How can I get help? Thank you very much.
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If a man too wanted to do something meaning that he doesn’t do anything for that. Is it the correct sentence? I also found Little woman has enough energy to help her father. She did nothing but get hurt.
A precisian would prefer He, too, wanted to do it if the intention was ‘Both he and his friend wanted to do it’, since He wanted to do it too might mean ‘he wanted to say it and do it’. There is no choice between the two, and you
have both got to have it all.
What is the main difference in accent? What’s the normal, which is to say un-emphasized, phrasing, is: “He wanted to do it too. “Although subtle shades of meaning are obtained in English, one of the ways in which subtle shades of meaning are obtained is by varying word order, causing the word(s) moved to be emphasized.
A classic example is the retort attributed to Winston Churchill after an editor criticized his word order: “This is nonsense up with which I shall not put!” ”
“Simply Put”; “I say it anyways. “
The “too” would need to be isolated by commas to be correct. I should definitely be using commas. But commas also represent pause in speech and sometimes that is the only reason for them being used in a sentence. I know people do say ‘too’ at the end of sentences. I did that too. It has pauses too. Maybe they are correct, but we are still doing it. Though both would be understood and neither is “wrong” to any prosecutable degree, I’d stick with the “too” at the end for fluency.
Where it takes so long to make a comma count, many people don’t use it at all. Is they really used when they are needed? If you read a sentence aloud, and put a comma where there would be a natural pause, you should be all right. Why do some people ignore the commas in sentences, instead of searching for meaning on the page? When they read the sentence to themselves it seems fine. Without any commas, they forget to realize that the reader may not put the emphasis in the same places without commas. The other one that they should avoid is, for instance, The Old Testament. What is a failure responsibility by the speechwriter.
You can say it, but I’d write it like “He, too, wanted to do it. I’d actually replace “too” with “also”, for “He also wanted to do it.” Is
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