grammar · neutral
too + adjective + to + base verb
Band 5-6speakingtask2
Shows that something is so extreme that an action is impossible or does not happen (so...that cannot...).
Examples
“The box is too heavy to carry alone.”
“The soup was too hot to eat.”
“She spoke too fast to understand everything.”
Band 8 sentence
“The assignment was too complex to finish in one evening, so we decided to divide the work.”
Collocations
- too + adjective + to + V
- too + adjective + for + noun/pronoun + to + V
Word family
too much + noun phrase
Common mistakes
It is too much hot to go out.→It is too hot to go out.
She is too young for drive.→She is too young to drive.
Say it for a higher band
5so + adjective + that + clause→6very + adjective + to + V (non-standard)→7+too + adjective + to + base verb
Synonyms
so ... that ...
Easily confused
adjective + enough + to + base verb
“He is tall enough to play basketball.”
Related words
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In Tenses
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