{"id":73474,"date":"2020-03-26T06:32:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73474"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T06:32:34","slug":"very-vs-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/very-vs-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Very vs. Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Very\u00a0<\/b>means \u2018to a great degree\u2019. It is used with an adjective or another adverb in the positive degree.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is\u00a0<b>very nice<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>He is a\u00a0<b>very nice\u00a0<\/b>boy.<\/li>\n<li>He did it\u00a0<b>very nicely<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<b>very cold<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>She is\u00a0<b>very beautifu<\/b>l.<\/li>\n<li>He wrote\u00a0<b>very well\/carefully\/quickly<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Very<\/b>\u00a0can be used with a present participle used as an adjective.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<b>very amusing\u00a0<\/b>story.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<b>very interesting<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When used with a\u00a0<b>superlative<\/b>\u00a0or \u2018own\u2019,\u00a0<b>very<\/b>\u00a0means \u2018in the highest degree\u2019 or \u2018absolutely\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This tea is of\u00a0<b>the very best\u00a0<\/b>quality.<\/li>\n<li>She is\u00a0<b>the very best\u00a0<\/b>dancer here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Very<\/b>\u00a0is quite common before\u00a0<b>much<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I like your new dress\u00a0<b>very much<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>I am\u00a0<b>very much\u00a0<\/b>obliged to you.<\/li>\n<li>Thank you\u00a0<b>very much<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Too and very<\/h3>\n<p><b>Too<\/b>\u00a0does not mean the same as\u00a0<b>very<\/b>.\u00a0<b>Too<\/b>\u00a0means \u2018more than enough\u2019, \u2018more than necessary\u2019 or \u2018more than wanted\u2019.\u00a0<b>Very<\/b>, on the other hand, has a positive meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was\u00a0<b>very cold<\/b>, but we went out.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<b>too cold\u00a0<\/b>to go out, so we stayed at home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, in an informal style,\u00a0<b>too<\/b>\u00a0can sometimes be used to mean\u00a0<b>\u2018very\u2019<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh, that is really\u00a0<b>too kind\u00a0<\/b>of you \u2013 thank you so much.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Very with superlatives<\/h3>\n<p><b>Very\u00a0<\/b>can emphasize superlatives and words like<b>\u00a0first, last<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>next<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They were all sporting their\u00a0<b>very best<\/b>\u00a0clothes.<\/li>\n<li>This is your\u00a0<b>very last<\/b>\u00a0chance, so don\u2019t just throw it away.<\/li>\n<li>You are the\u00a0<b>very first<\/b>\u00a0person I have seen today<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very\u00a0means \u2018to a great degree\u2019. It is used with an adjective or another adverb in the positive degree. He is\u00a0very nice. He is a\u00a0very nice\u00a0boy. He did it\u00a0very nicely. It is\u00a0very cold. She is\u00a0very&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1250,2290,2292,2291],"class_list":["post-73474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-too","tag-very","tag-very-and-too","tag-very-vs-too"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73475,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73474\/revisions\/73475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}