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Enough
After adjectives and adverbs.
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Example: The bananas weren’t ripe enough. Too
Is used before adjectives or adverbs.
Before nouns as determiners.
Examples: My jeans are too old.
Example: He hasn’t got enough time.
He drives too fast.
It may be used alone as a pronoun.
It may be followed by an infinitive with to.
Example: The weather was too cold (for me) to
Example: Would you like some wine? swim.

No, thanks. I have enough.

Too many

Is always followed by a countable plural noun.

Example: I’ve eaten too many

Too much
chocolates.
Is always followed by an uncountable noun.

Example: He eats too much sugar.

 1. Complete the sentences with too much or too many.

a) I think we’ve bought _____________ ___ tickets for the show.

b) They are making ______ noise.

c) Don’t you think there are _____special

effects in some films?

d) There are __actors looking for work.

e) The actress was wearing ___ ______

make-up.

f) There’s ____________ _ violence in

films, isn’t there?

2. Rewrite the sentences with too or enough accordingly:

EXAMPLE: Mary isn’t old enough to watch this movie.

Mary is too young to watch this movie.

a) The stunt was too difficult for him to perform.

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b) The cinema tickets weren’t cheap enough for us to buy.

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c) Did you like the film? – No, It wasn’t interesting enough.

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d) The room was too cold for her to sit there.

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e) My cousin is too ugly to be a film star.

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3. Answer the questions as in the example. Use too, enough, too much or too
many.

EXAMPLE: Why didn’t you buy the car? (expensive)

Because it was too expensive.

a) Why didn’t you see your friends at the downtown? (people)

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b) Why couldn’t you come to the party? (time)

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c) Why didn’t you come to the cinema with us? (tired)

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d) Why are there so many road accidents? (cars)

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e) Why do the students get so low grades? (stressed)

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