Question

A4 Language study:
(i) You were too young to be alone in a big city.
(Remove 'too' and rewrite the sentence)​

Answer 1

You were very young to be alone in a big city

Answer 2

Rewriting the given sentence after removing "too" we have:-

You were so young that you could not be alone in a big city.

• too is an adverb, which describes the extreme extent of action.
• it is an adverb of degree since it depicts the extent
• so....that is also an adverb that has been used in place of too
• it kind of implies a condition and depicts the degree at the same time
• so and that always go in a pair as an adverb clause.