Business & Technical Writing/Using too.

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Expert: - 9/27/2005


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Haha, you may have noticed that I've asked you a somewhat numerous amount of questions; well, thanks for all the help.

At any rate, I'm wondering about using "too" at the end of a sentence such as, "I like it too."  I'm unsure of when you need to separate it off with a comma.  For some reason, "Me, too." just doesn't seem right.

Thanks.

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I would not normally set it off with a comma. I don't know that I've noticed it done very often, and I'm having trouble thinking of an example of when the comma should be used.

"Me too." is correct, as is, "I like it too."

Used in this sense, it is identical to "also." You would not set also off with a comma in this sentence.

Hope this helps.

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