Timeline for “I’m too tired to drive”: Why does removing 'too' make this sentence ungrammatical?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
7 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2014 at 13:03 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | That's entirely possible. It's hard to say what constructions he is bringing across from his first language. I say I am tired to please them (paraphrasing what he said). In context, this is now grammatical by changing the main verb to say whereas I am tired to please them is not grammatical independently. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 12:54 | comment | added | CowperKettle | @CJDennis My thought was that Pawan Goenka meant this: "In order to please them (to comply with their belief that I'm tired) I sometimes say that I'm tired (although I'm not)." I'm not a native speaker myself though. (0: | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 12:50 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | I just checked out the link from the OP's question. The writer has very good but not perfect English as shown in the next paragraph: I ... was doing very good instead of I was doing very well. The writer appears to be a long time speaker of English but not a native speaker. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 12:40 | comment | added | CowperKettle | @CJDennis - thanks, CJ! Nick Jones mentioned this construction in his answer. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 12:38 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | I am tired of pleasing them | |
| Dec 11, 2014 at 8:11 | history | edited | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 271 characters in body
|
| Dec 11, 2014 at 8:05 | history | answered | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |