Well, the requests keep on coming, so I suppose I can break my own rules by giving more than one lesson per day.
GRAMMAR LESSON #4: "TO," "TOO," and "TWO"
TO: (usage A) A part of speech indicating an indirect object or a direction. EXAMPLES: "I'm going to complain
to the mods about Juliann's derailments." "I've been
to two Mormonism-related message boards this week." "The MA&D moderators are really going
to town on the bannings, aren't they?"
TO: (usage B) The introductory half of an infinitive verb construction, an "infinitive verb" construction being "to (verb)." EXAMPLES: "The MA&D moderators are too petty
to allow competing arguments
to stand." "I'm going
to complain to the mods about Juliann's derailments." "How long will that post last on MA&D before the moderators decide
to delete it?"
TOO: (usage A) "Also" or "in addition." EXAMPLES: "You think Juliann is hyper-sensitive? Me
too!" "The Mormons believe that way,
too." "They
too were banned from MA&D."
TOO: (usage B) "In excess" or "overly much." EXAMPLES: "MA&D moderators close
too many treads just as they're getting interesting." "The MA&D moderators are
too petty to allow competing arguments to stand." "I was only
too happy to start posting here instead."
TWO: The number between one and three. EXAMPLES: "Juliann and Pahoran are
two Mormons who give the rest a very bad name." "I've been to
two Mormonism-related message boards this week." "I've seen
two of the three Star Wars prequels."
accept and except?
That's better quantified as spelling issue, since they're
two different words with different meanings. To whit:
ACCEPT: To come to terms with. "I
accept the fact that the MA&D moderators are unFAIR." "Can you
accept the fact that Joseph Smith married other men's wives?" "I'd
accept that argument if it came from anyone except a FARMS scholar."
EXCEPT: An article meaning "not included," similar to "but" (occasionally, though, a transitive verb meaning "to leave out"). EXAMPLES: "I'd accept that argument if it came from anyone
except a FARMS scholar." "MA&D moderators will ban anyone
except for another Internet Mormon." "Everyone was invited
except me."
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
--Louis Midgley