Why is this wrong

You can't use "too" like that before an adjective which comes directly before the noun. It would be correct if you removed the word "girls".

I'm not good at English, but i think "These girls are too kind to refuse" might be the correct answer.

It's a bit weird, but I can tell you that 'girls' in this sentence is being stranded, in a way. 'Kind' is being applied to 'they', not 'girls', so 'girls' is kind of left hanging. Some ways to fix this: "The girls are too kind to refuse" "They are too kind of girls to refuse" "They are too kind to refuse"

You could simply say, "They are too kind to refuse." If you want to specify, you could say "The girls are too kind to refuse."

They are too kind of girls to refuse or simply The girls are too kind to refuse edit: i realize i might've made a mistake with "of", but i have no idea

They are too kind to refuse. But I can’t explain

When you have a singular you can write: "She is too kind a girl to refuse" But when it becomes plural the equivalent just doesn't quite work, I think that's what you're trying to accomplish here.

It could be either be “They are too kind to refuse.” or “The girls are too kind to refuse.”

Too is an adverb, kind is an adjective, "kind girls" are objects of the verb "are", you can't have an adverb in the direct object of the verb.

This is fascinating. I am not convinced this is incorrect. The problematic construction appears to be: [comparative adverb] [adjective] [plural noun] to [bare verb] However, I can think of plenty of counterexamples: "Those are more healthy foods to eat." "They are most precious goods to sell." "These are very good things to see." It seems this sentence isn't, in fact, grammatically incorrect at all. Nevertheless I would immediately assume the author to be a non-native speaker for using it. I think the real problem word here is "too"...?

Others have put forth valid substitutions. One I didn't see is "They are too kind *of* girls to refuse." My teacher brain isn't working to tell me why this works, but my native brain is telling me it does.

Weirdly enough, “They are too kind” or “she is too kind” is correct but only for those with a southern dialect. Another way to say is “The girls are too kind to refuse” and that would be more standard English

We don't normally use "too" inside a noun phrase. "The man was very tall" is OK. "The very tall man..." is OK. "The girl was too tall" is OK. "The too tall girl" is not OK. It's because "very" isn't *necessarily* negative or excessive, but "too" *generally* is. Thus, there is an *expectation* of further information ("She was too tall to fit in the car") - even if that further info isn't explicit. It's a difficult part of grammar to explain. There are exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions. Don't overthink it; it'll become automatic, rather than figuring it out from supposed "rules".

These girls are too kind to refuse.

You could say that they are too kind to refuse (best). You could also say that they are too-kind girls to refuse - the hyphen makes it clear that this is a compound adjective. The first method is much clearer though.

Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and fucking died.

The “girls” in the sentence sounds off to me as a native speaker, hard to say without context but it could be asking for that word to be gone if the subject is already known to be the “girls”

Some examples on how to fix it: * The girls are too kind to refuse. * These girls are too kind to refuse. * They are too kind to refuse. * These girls, they are too kind to refuse. * They, the girls, are too kind to refuse.

Or "the two girls are a kind of refuse."

It should be "They are too kind of girls to refuse". I don't know why nobody else is saying this.

You could also rewrite it as, "Those girls are too kind to refuse."

They are too kind *of* girls to refuse

The reason why it’s wrong is because you have two subjects they and girls. You don’t need to call it out twice. You can either say the girls are too kind to refuse. Or they are too kind to refuse. When you subject this way, you’re splitting the sentence and making it unclear.

From what I understand the adjective of being 'too kind' has to come after the noun it's describing. In your sentence you have multiple nouns which is why it's confusing to read, and it muddles the word order a bit. You can use the noun 'They', and remove the second noun 'girls', \- ***They*** are ***too kind*** to refuse. OR, you can reword it using the noun girls, \- ***The girls*** are ***too kind*** to refuse.

But singular would work? He is too kind a man to refuse? I feel like I have heard it said somewhere

what sort of human trafficking English course are you taking?

It's about the noun interrupting the construction, which needs to be "too *adjective* to *verb*" – where the adjective can refer to either the subject or the object of the verb. If you want to use an adjective and a noun, this is one of the situations where English switches to using adjectival phrases postpositively (though most native speakers would not be conscious of doing this in such terms): "I'm looking for a boyfriend too handsome to ignore. There are people too proud to let themselves be seen without makeup."