Too…to… | Conversational Structures

The structure too… to… shows undesirable excess and has a kind of negative meaning.

• She was too tired to walk.
• This is too good to be true.
• The coffee is too hot for me to drink.
• The boy has too little intelligence to understand this.
• His behaviour was too impudent for me to tolerate.
• He has become too much of a nuisance to put up with.

Notes

‘She was too tired to walk’ means ‘She was so tired that she could not walk’.