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Similar with the word 'too', 'enough' sufficiency is means something meets the
needs or requirement. Lets say you have two or three sheets of paper to do your
homework, and your homework need two papers. It means that you have enough
paper to write your homework. Let us read the conversation below to know about it.
‘enough' means 'sufficient or meet the requirement’. It is mainly used to talk
about sufficiency situations in present. After the word enough occur in a sentence, it
mainly followed by noun or noun phrase.
Generally, the word 'enough’ is used to indicate that certain noun, adverb, or
verb is being sufficient or meet the requirement. Let us observe the phrases below!
1. enough sleeping means the activity of sleep is being meet the minimum
requirement and not overly done from the standard.
2. enough clothes means that the clothes being owned is normal for person to own.
3. understand enough means that the person have meet the minimum requirement
of knowing of certain subject or phrase.
4. clear enough means the object (e.g. water, drink, weather) being talked about is
have degree of clearness to be seen through.
While the word 'to' which precedes the sentence with 'enough' can be
functioned as standard parameter or measurement for the sufficiency. Take a look at
these sentences as example!
Reading the examples you may notice that 'enough' is sometimes placed before the
word it modifies. For example:
- What do we need for dinner? I think we have enough vegetables.
- She feels that Tom has more than enough time to help.
Place 'enough' directly after the adverb modified when using enough as an adverb
to mean to the required degree or extent.
- Peter drove slowly enough for us to look at all the houses.
- The students studied carefully enough to do well on the exam.
Place 'enough' directly before a noun to state that there is as much or as many as
required.
- Do you have enough money for your vacation?
- I'm afraid we don't have enough oranges to make the dessert.
The sufficiency markers also used in the text. Read the short passage below to give
you image on how it is used!
This Is What Happens When You Don't Drink Enough Water
Besides the fact that you'd literally die without it, there are many, MANY
imperative reasons to drink water frequently, every single day. It starts out pretty
mild you might feel thirsty and have a dry mouth. But the long-term effects of not
drinking enough water not only have an effect on your weight (in a bad way), but
they're also extremely dangerous and life-threatening. Here's what happens to your
body.
Consistently not drinking enough water for an extended period of time has its
effect as well. Although you may brush off the milder side effects, your body is still
suffering and several of these have a significant bearing on weight gain.
Now for the worst of it. Yes, it's terrible that dehydration can make you gain
weight (or keep you from losing it), but there are some bigger issues at hand. If
you're truly neglecting your water intake, this should likely help you get on track.
Here's what happens to your body when you don't get enough water.
1. Heart injury
2. Brain swelling
3. Seizures
4. Hypovolemic shock
5. Kidney failure
Let us read the conversation below to know about how to use the 'enough'
word into a dialogue!
Niko and Dodo meet in the school yard.
Niko : Hi Dodo, how was the score?
Dodo : I did it! I got A+ in statistics. "
Niko : That's cool.
Dodo : How about you?
Niko : Well, not bad. I have enough points to get B.
Dodo : B is good enough to pass the exam.
Niko : How about the physic score?
Dodo : I am not really good at it. I failed.
Niko : Really? I thought you have enough time to answer the question.
Dodo : I do have the time but I don't have enough knowledge to solve the questions.
Niko : I got B+ on it. I glad I studied last week.
Dodo : Professor said I can get enough mark if I can answer one more correctly.
Niko : That's a shame.
Dodo : How about your English?.
Niko : I did it. I answered enough to get A+.
Dodo : Wow, It means you answered all correctly.
Niko : I guess so.
Dodo : Anyway, I also got enough points to get A+ too.
Niko : Wow. Can't say I can't believe that.
Dodo : Well you have to believe it anyway. The score will be distributed tomorrow.
Note:
After learning both ‘too’ and ‘enough’, you need to understand the difference
between them in sentence. Too does not mean very.
She is very beautiful. (NOT She is too beautiful)
She is too fat. OR She is very fat.
In an informal style, however, too is often used instead of very.
You are too kind. (less formal than ‘you are very kind’.)