質問: tooの前のカンマは必要でしょうか? tooの前のカンマは必要でしょうか? 手元の辞書(ジーニアス)では、 i am too. i'm ready too. i do too. は付いていなく、 me (,) too. はどちらでも良く、 we have a cat, and a puppy, too. bob, too, frequently interrupted rehearsals to give advice. は付いています。 最後のものがtoo frequently(あまりにもたびたび)の誤解を避けている理由は分かるのですが、それ以外の判断基準が分かりません。 いったい、tooの前にはカンマをつけるべきなのでしょうか。 単純化して、常に付けておけば無難でokでしょうか。
回答: 文法というより、外人さんはこれらのルールを「スタイル」と表現します。物書のプロは、このようなスタイルに従う事がおおいですね。 今回のご質問ではあえて強調する(xxx, too, xxx)場合以外では不要との事です。 chicago manual of style では、このようにしています。ご参考までに。 q. please help clarify a debate over what i see as a groundless but persistent carryover from high-school english classes: the comma-before-too “rule.” the rule goes something like this: when “too” is used in the sense of “also,” use a comma before and after “too” in the middle of a sentence and a comma before “too” at the end of a sentence. i am editing a work of fiction in which the author has rigidly applied the rule. i have just as rigidly deleted the commas. my managing editor believes that a comma is needed when “too” refers to an item in a list and has the sense of “in addition” (e.g., “i like apples and bananas, too.”), but she would omit the comma when “too” refers to the subject of the sentence (e.g., “oh, you like apples and bananas? i like apples and bananas too.”). my managing editor’s rule helps make a useful distinction, but i am still wondering whether the comma is ever grammatically justified. a. a comma can do some work in making the meaning of a sentence clear, but to claim two different meanings for i like apples and bananas too with and without a comma before too puts too much pressure on the comma. out of context, neither version would be perfectly clear. to make the different meanings more apparent, short of additional context, you’d have to be more explicit: i too like apples and bananas. i like not only apples but bananas too. use commas with too only when you want to emphasize an abrupt change of thought: he didn’t know at first what hit him, but then, too, he hadn’t ever walked in a field strewn with garden rakes. in most other cases, commas with this short adverb are unnecessary (an exception being sentences that begin with too—in the sense of also—a construction some writers would avoid as being too awkward). 若い外人さんの「会話中心的な省略」のような流行ではありませんね。プロの翻訳者などはこの辺りのセンスがしっかり整っていますよ。 一度、外人さんが使うような参考書をご覧になれば勉強になると思います。 では、がんばってください。