USING

‘ENOUGH’
Improving Grammar together
 USING ‘ENOUGH with Adjectives
and Adverbs’
•‘Enough’ comes after adjectives and
adverbs
•Examples:
• I’m not good enough to teach you
mathematics.
• My experience in organizing events is
great enough to help you in organizing
one.
Using with Verbs
• Enough comes after verbs
• I did not write fast enough during the
exams which is why I lot my marks.
• Do drink enough water as summer
season is going on.
With Nouns
• Enough is used before nouns
• Examples:
• Have you got enough money to pay for
the concert?
• There is not enough bread for breakfast.
Using as a pronoun
• It can be used without noun.
• Examples:
• The milk in the fridge is about half liter.
Is it enough?
• Would you like to have more tea? No
thanks I’ve had enough.
 With an adjective and a noun
• When enough is used with an adjective and a noun, two positions
are possible but the meaning changes.
• Examples:
• We haven't got big enough envelopes. 
We haven't got enough big envelopes.
• When enough is after the adjective (big enough envelopes), it
describes the adjective – the envelopes are too small.
When enough is before the adjective (enough big envelopes), it
describes the noun phrase – we have some big envelopes, but
we need more.
Lastly…..
• Enough of
• We normally only use enough of when it is followed by a
determiner or a pronoun
(a/an/the, this/that, my/your/his, you/them, etc.).
• Examples:
• There isn't enough of that bread to make sandwiches for
everyone.
I’ve seen enough of his performance which was not stellar
to be honest.
• There's enough of us to make a difference.
Credits:
• All of the slides have been partially
translated into my words from the
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.o
rg
website.