2015年12月26日 · "I decided to go on holiday for a week. I think 10 days is too many for me." Am I correct using 'is' instead of 'are'? Or the only way is to change the phrase to '10-days period is too long for ...

2015年12月28日 · But "too" cannot licence a that clause complement in a construction like this, which is why [i] is ungrammatical. You can tell that it's "so" that licenses the complement because if we drop it, the sentence becomes ungrammatical (* I had many things to do that I …

2013年2月10日 · I don't think that there are too many "and"s in the sentence, but perhaps one of the "provide"s can be changed to "offer", e.g.: I help individuals, schools, and organisations offer special needs care, care training, and home audits by {providing / giving [CHOOSE ONE]} training classes, caregiver evaluations, and other care-based educational ...

2022年1月3日 · "Too much time", but "Too many hours"? When you Google "too much or too many" you get: Much is always used together with an uncountable noun (like 'oil' or 'water') while Many is always used with nouns that are countable (like 'table' or 'computer') But isn't "time" very countable or atleast measurable, but maybe that's not the same?

2018年3月23日 · Too many cooks spoil the broth. The Free Dictionary says of the idiom “Too many cooks”: Too many people trying to control, influence, or work on something, with the quality of the final product suffering as a result. A shortened version of the full phrase, "Too many cooks spoil the broth/stew/soup."

If you had a sign writer write a sign for your pub and you got this: The fox and the hen. You might say to the signwriter: "You have left too much space between fox and "and" and "and" and the hen". That is and 5 times and consecutive.

2018年12月26日 · Many of the other answers are unusual words to find in a business setting -- a bit poetic. I'd suggest involved-- which is defined as "difficult to understand; complicated" -- but which I interpret as "I understand it but it's long and not worth going into, not worth explaining here." So, "employees complain that this methodology is too involved".

2023年1月9日 · I upvoted "too many cooks spoil the broth (or soup)" because I think it most closely matches the paradoxical effect of reduced efficiency from adding people to a task. I also thought of the Bystander Effect, but as I understand it, that effect is usually brought up about others who just stand around and do nothing - rather than doing the same ...

2012年10月22日 · Once I got a real job, playing in a band was too much of a hassle. Not only do you eliminate an I, but the sentence doesn't start with I and instead of using the basic verb play stuck to the in a band phrase, the second example has playing in a band as all one phrase. Variety tends to keep readers' interest longer than assembly-line thoughts.

2015年4月26日 · If you want always to write, "There are too many damn fools on the Internet", then no one is stopping you. FWIW you have my blessing. But if you want to mount a crusade against what Marius calls the informal & casual "There's too many damn fools", then I think you have a job for life.