YET: YOUR ESL TEACHER - grammar - count, non-count

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COUNT & NON-COUNTtoo, too much, too many

UPDATED: JUN 2023

MEANING:

TOO: more than normal, excess

too is also used to indicate something negative or bad.
too + adjective (tall, fat, rich, poor, etc)
too many + noun+S (cars, books, friends, etc)
too much + noun (money, cash, water, air, time, etc

CORRECT & INCORRECT

I like to travel too much. <-INCORRECT

I love to travel a lot. <-CORRECT
He is too rich. <-INCORRECT
- being rich is not considered something "bad".
- if being rich puts you in danger, then you could use it.
"He is too rich to walk to the store late at night. <-CORRECT
(walking to the store at night can be dangerous if you are rich, thus "too" can be used because = "bad")

He is very rich. <-CORRECT

EXAMPLES:

too + adjective

too much + non-count noun

too many + count noun

He is too fat to play tennis.
He is too lazy to learn English.

He's too old to play tennis.

He works too much.
Trump talks too much.
It's too hot to play tennis.
Mary has too much homework to go to the party.
I watch too much TV.

Roger has too many problems.
There are too many students in the class.
Do you think there are too many students in the class?

NOTE: so .... that

so + adjective + that = too
He is too fat to play tennis. / He is so fat that he can't play tennis.
He is too lazy to learn English. / He is so lazy that he can't learn English.