How do I write there are 3 twos(tos, toos, twos) in the English language?

Question

I have tried Ask.com and Google.com but I haven't come up with an answer. Any ideas?

Apparently, there is a correct way of doing this. I know the difference between two, to, and too. But, how does one write the sentence to reflect that 3 words that sound the same are in the English language?

I appreciate some of the answers, but they aren't very helpful at this point.

Answer 1

Scallawags answer above is correct.

You cannot pluralize "to" or "too".

You also cannot say there are "3 twos" because, as you know, the definition of "two" is entirely different from "to" and "too". To say that there are "3 twos" is to say that there are physically three 2's in something (i.e. 345-0222).

A way to approach it is to say something to the effect of:

"In the English language there are many words that are pronounced the same, though they are spelled differently. An example of this are the words two, to, and too."

As a side note, for numbers under 10, you should spell them out when you are writing them (except, obviously in math).

Answer 2

I would say "there are three homophones of the word 'to' in the English language"
A homophone is a word that sounds the same, but has a different meaning.

Answer 3

Do you mean like for a paper or essay or something?

How about:

In the English language, there are three forms of the word "to":
to - used for expressing motion or direction toward a point, person, place, or thing
two - as in the number two
too - in addition; also; furthermore; moreover

You could put the "tos" and their definition as bullet points to emphasize the difference...
Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Hi.........
In spite of english is not my mother language I think that I got correctly what you want to know..
here I go....HOMOPHONE

A homophone is a word that has the same pronunciation as another word, but whose meaning and/or spelling are different, . Example: All of to, too, and two,.... or... there, their, and they’re.

Was I right???
Hope it helps.....good luck

Answer 5

The correct answer is that there are three {tuz} in the English Language, to, too, two.

Answer 6

There are 3 "toows" in English: Two, Too, and To. :-)

Answer 7

Three Two's that's the English vocabulary, hope this helps

Answer 8

Not to sound rude or anything (so please don't take it that way).

But there aren't three twos, tos, or toos in the english language.

There are only one of each! :)

One way to tackle this could be to spell it phonetically: tu, 'tü (either one is correct).

Example: There are three words in the English language which are pronounced "TU" or "tü".

Or you can skirt that issue altogether and use a different approach:

To whit: There are three such homonymic words in the English language; to, too and two.

Good luck!

Answer 9

Its loopy yet you acquire to like it. additionally how loopy is cockney rhyming slang. trouble and strife - spouse apple and pears - stairs. I heard a clean one the different day. Kief cheggers - preggers (pregnant) 'seem shes kief cheggers' lmao

Answer 10

As an example, you can say, "There are three words, all pronounced as, 'to', but each is spelled differently and has its own meaning."

Just avoiding pluralizing the word altogether solves the problem.