How to use "Enough" in English Grammar (2024)

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How to use "Enough" in English Grammar? ›

enough comes after adjectives and adverbs. I'm not tall enough to reach the top shelf. Your marks are good enough to study engineering at university. I couldn't write quickly enough and I ran out of time.

enough comes after adjectives and adverbs. I'm not tall enough to reach the top shelf. Your marks are good enough to study engineering at university. I couldn't write quickly enough and I ran out of time.

Examples of enough in a Sentence

Adverb I couldn't run fast enough to catch up with her. She's old enough to know better. Are you rich enough to retire? That's good enough for me.

'Enough' as a determiner stands before a noun or a noun phrase. It does not matter if the noun is countable or uncountable. For example: That's enough money for this trip; let's get started.

Summary. Use too for negative situations and enough for positive ones. Too comes before the adjective or adverb it's describing, while enough comes after the adjective or adverb. Enough comes before a noun, whereas too is never used before a noun.

Enough is a determiner, a pronoun or an adverb. We use enough to mean 'as much as we need or want'.

Here, enough is an adjective. The adjective cannot modify another adjective. In the phrase good enough, enough is an adverb of sufficiency. It is correctly used here.

If you want to make it clear who you are talking about, you can add a prepositional phrase beginning with for. For example, you can say 'The boat was close enough to touch' or 'The boat was close enough for me to touch it'. The bananas are ripe enough to eat. The music was just loud enough for us to hear it.

We can combine two sentences into one using enough + infinitive. Before combining two clauses using enough, make sure that they are both affirmative or negative.

Is it rich enough or enough rich? ›

Money is a noun, so it comes after enough. 2. "I will never be rich enough." Rich is an adjective so it comes before enough.

"Someone has to explain the situation to her." "Enough said." "There are some, er, objections to her appointment." "Oh yes, enough said." She thinks the moon is made of cheese - enough said. "Put it this way: she can afford her own private jet." "Enough said."

If someone has as much of a quality as they need in order to do something, you add a to-infinitive after enough. The children are old enough to travel to school on their own. You can also use a to-infinitive after enough to say that something has as much of a quality as is needed for someone to do something with it.

You don't need an excuse to tell him enough is enough. It's time for parents to show enough is enough. This may well be the weekend to decide enough is enough. When do we say enough is enough?