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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack explain the differences between the homophones to, too, and two.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I’m here today with my co-host social and this is the grammar zone and in the grammar zone we like to answer your grammar questions and today’s social. We’ve got some homophones and homophones are words that are.
00:00:21
Jack
They sound the same, but they are spelled differently and have different meanings, and today we’re looking at 22 and two.
00:00:30
Jack
So 222 and the first one is TO what is that? What does 2 mean 2?
00:00:38
Xochitl
TO2 it’s a.
00:00:42
Xochitl
It goes in between.
00:00:46
Xochitl
Like UM.
00:00:48
Xochitl
I went to the store, so between the subject and the location for example.
00:00:54
Jack
Right, like a preposition, right? It’s a preposition, yeah.
00:00:58
Jack
In on at to something like that. Yeah. And you said it. It’s used to indicate direction, destination or a recipient. Right. I gave something to the manager. You know, something like that.
00:01:13
Xochitl
Yes, and it doesn’t have to be a physical thing like you can. If you scolded kids, you can say I gave them a talking to.
00:01:22
Jack
Ohh that’s a good expression right there. Uh, talking to right means uh like uh yeah scolding right? Or a lecture? Something like that, but not a classroom lecture but like a like a discipline kind of situation, you know.
00:01:38
Xochitl
Yes, yes.
00:01:40
Jack
Good, OK. Uh, what about TO?
00:01:46
Xochitl
Two is like also it means also and.
00:01:53
Xochitl
It means ohh like you went to this.
00:01:57
Xochitl
Door and bought some coffee.
00:02:01
Xochitl
UMI bought coffee too TO you. Also bought coffee. So anywhere that you can replace also with TO then you know that’s the correct 2.
00:02:13
Jack
Exactly. And whereas 2T O is a preposition TO is an adverb, which means like you said also or in addition to, you know or in addition, yeah so.
00:02:27
Jack
I want some ice cream and she wants some too or she wants some also. Yeah. Same meaning also too.
00:02:39
Jack
All right. Our last one is TW O2.
00:02:44
Xochitl
EW O2 is 2, as in the number, so any place where you could replace the number 2 for TWO that’s correct to use.
00:02:56
Xochitl
Like I have two cartoons of milk.
00:02:59
Jack
Right.
00:03:00
Jack
There are two hosts.
00:03:02
Jack
Of the A-Z English podcast.
00:03:07
Xochitl
Yes, that.
00:03:09
Jack
Yeah. So to remember the difference, think of two TO as indicating a direction.
00:03:17
Jack
Think of to O2 as meaning also or in addition, and it has an extra O for more, so there’s a little trick to remembering it and TW O as the number two it has a W for double.
00:03:38
Jack
As in the number 2. So those are just some little tricks you can use to remember the differences.
00:03:48
Xochitl
All right, students, if that makes sense to you. If you have any further questions that you would like to ask us, make sure to leave a comment down below at A-Z. Englishpodcast.com, shoot us an e-mail at at ozenglishpodcast@gmail.com. So Jack and I can answer your questions or join the conversation.
00:04:05
Xochitl
And we chat or WhatsApp and we’ll see you guys next time. Bye bye.
00:04:08
Jack
Bye bye.
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