Enough
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1 Enough comes after adjectives (without nouns) and adverbs.
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adjective/adverb + enough |
Is it warm enough for you? (NOT ... enough warm ...)
You’re not driving fast enough.
2 Enough comes before nouns.
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Enough (+ adjective) + noun |
Have you got enough milk? (NOT ... enough of milk.)
There isn’t enough blue paint left.
We use enough of before pronouns and determiners (for example the, my, this).
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Enough of + pronoun |
We didn’t buy enough of them.
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Enough of + determiner ( + adjective) + noun |
The exam was bad. I couldn’t answer enough of the questions.
Have we got enough of those new potatoes?
3 We can use an infinitive structure after enough.
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… enough… + infinitive |
She’s old enough to do what she wants.
I haven’t got enough money to buy a car.
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… enough … + for + object + infinitive |
It’s late enough for us to stop work.
