ingles (2024)

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What is the rule of too and enough? ›

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' 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.

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.

We use too many before countable nouns and too much before uncountable nouns. There are too many shops here - we can't go to them all. I did too much shopping yesterday - I haven't got any money now. We use enough + noun to say 'all that is necessary'.

Enough means as much as you need or as much as is necessary. They had enough cash for a one-way ticket. If you say that something is enough, you mean that you do not want it to continue any longer or get any worse.

You've got enough to think about for the moment. Ann had heard enough of this. He had messed up enough of these occasions to give rise to some anxieties. I've had enough problems with the police, I don't need this.

I have to say firmly that enough is enough. After seven years of membership, enough is enough. What emergency measures does he have to prevent the prison officers and the prisoners deciding to say, as they will soon, enough is enough? They are all saying the same thing: enough is 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."

Enough is an adjective that describes something that is adequate for an intended purpose. Enough is also used as an adverb to mean sufficiently or fully. Enough also has senses as a pronoun and an interjection. Enough describes something as being adequate or sufficient.

As a sentence adverb: fortunately, luckily. The Tanzanian Army..would leave the country in three years' time. Good enough they didn't kill. He asked for my CV to look at briefly and good enough I had it on my phone.

What is enough in grammar rules? ›

In specific terms using the word “enough” after an adjective means “sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire”. But, when enough is used after an adverb it means there is a quantity or degree that satisfies. In adjectives they are used as for example, She is old enough to drive a car.

They are both correct but used differently. Much too is less frequent than too much. The phrase modifies an adjective and is used to express an excessive amount of something. “It's much too hot to work in the garden today.” 'I'm much too ill to go to work today.” “Mary was driving much too fast in a school zone.”

You can use it instead of besides, in addition, also, or as well. But you can use it for other things, too, like when you want to indicate excessiveness. If you find grammar tough, you can say that it's too hard. In casual speech, speakers sometimes use too in the sense of very: “That cat is too funny!”

We use so, such, enough and too to indicate degree. So and such give emphasis and mean 'very'. Too means more than necessary, and enough indicates the right amount of something.

They are both correct but used differently. Much too is less frequent than too much. The phrase modifies an adjective and is used to express an excessive amount of something. “It's much too hot to work in the garden today.” 'I'm much too ill to go to work today.” “Mary was driving much too fast in a school zone.”