Common writing errors: Two / Too / To

Sometimes mistaken and sometimes just misinterpreted.

Two is the number that most people get right
Too means also or overly.
You like the barbecue sauce, and I do too.
I ate too many burgers.
These trousers are too big. (Well, maybe not, after all those French fries.)
To means well everything else, according to Webster’s dictionary, to has over 20 usages. To give some ideas please see below:
1. (used for expressing motion or direction toward a point, person, place, or thing approached and reached, as opposed to from ): They came to the house.
2. (used for expressing direction or motion or direction toward something) in the direction of; toward: from north to south.
3. (used for expressing limit of movement or extension): He grew to six feet.
4. (used for expressing contact or contiguity) on; against; beside; upon: a right uppercut to the jaw; Apply varnish to the surface.
5. (used for expressing a point of limit in time) before; until: to this day; It is ten minutes to six. We work from nine to five.

It’s also part of the famous line: To be, or not to be.

Which two/too/to is the correct one in any given situation? Well I could say “that is the question!”

The above is part of the Tips and Tricks section for CV writing on Comoto.