When should we use “too” and “so” in a sentence?

Question

For example, “so many people” and “too many people”.

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Answer 1

“too many people” means the amount of people is not good, there is more people here than there should be and it is a bad thing, there should be less people here.

“so many people” means the amount of people is a lot. its like wow look how many people there are here.

Here are two more examples:

Wow look at this bucket of water. There is so much water in this bucket. Its a lot of water but its ok the bucket can hold it all.

Wow look at this bucket of water. There is too much water in this bucket we have to dump some out or it will over flow.