TOO,

ENOUGH
OR
Grade 10 VERY?

By: Bunda Tuti Alawiyah, M.Pd

 LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
 Identifying the function of too/enough/very
 Comparing the expression too/enough/very in English
language with one in Bahasa Indonesia to improve students’
cross-cultural understanding and provide activities to use
the expressions
 Use too/enough/very to ask and give responses
 Use too/enough/very in various activities in the daily life
 Comparing too/enough/very
 TOO / ENOUGH?
They are adverb of degree which tell
us about the degree (how much) of
an action, an adjective or another
adverb.

Common adverbs of degree:

E.g. very, quite, too,

enough ….
 FORM
 TOO + ADJECTIVE/ADVERB
 TOO MUCH/MANY + NOUN
 TOO MUCH/MANY + OF + PRONOUN/DETERMINER

 ADJECTIVE/ADVERB + ENOUGH
 ENOUGH + NOUN
 ENOUGH + OF + PRONOUN/DETERMINER
 TOO
means more than necessary

E.g. There are too many people on

this train, there is nowhere to sit.

E.g. You have too much money,

donate some to the charity,
please.
 TOO  VERY
too = more than enough, more than
necessary or more than wanted

E.g. It was very cold, but we went out.

E.g. It was too cold to go out,

so we stayed at home.
 ENOUGH
enough means "sufficient"

E.g. Your clothes are big enough

to fit me.

E.g. Have you got enough money

to buy that coat?
 ENOUGH
• IN A NEGATIVE SENTENCE, MEANS
"LESS THAN SUFFICIENT" OR "LESS THAN
NECESSARY"

• E.G. SORRY, I HAVEN'T GOT ENOUGH FOOD

FOR EVERYONE

• E.G. HE IS NOT TALL ENOUGH TO BE A

POLICEMAN.
 ENOUGH
usually follows its adjective

E.g. He is not tall enough

to be a policeman.

E.g. He is not enough tall

to be a policeman.
 ADDITIONAL POINT
Enough can be used without A noun if the meaning is
clear.

 There’s a lot of food but not enough for everyone.

Enough can be replaced with the before a noun.

 I don’t have the enough money to go on holiday.

Time or room can be used alone to mean enough time or

enough room.

 Is there room in your car for one more person?

 Do we have time for a coffee?
 VERY
Very is used to give emphasis to an adjective or
adverb

• The problem and the answer are very simple.

• It is very, very strong evidence indeed.
• I'm very sorry.
• They are getting the hang of it very quickly.
• Thank you very much.
• The men were very much like my father.
Use very to give emphasis to an adjective that
is not usually graded, when you want to say
that a quality is very obvious.

• Janet looked very pregnant.

• His taste strikes the English as very french.
• If you think I'm happy with what's left,
you're very wrong.
Use very to give emphasis to a superlative
adjective or adverb. For example, if you
say that something is the very best, you
are emphasizing that it is the best.

• They will be helped by the very latest in

navigation aids.
• I am feeling in the very best of spirits.

• At the very least, the government must offer

some protection to mothers who fear domestic
violence.
Use very with certain nouns in order to
specify an extreme position or extreme
point in time.
• At the very back of the yard, several feet from
lenny, was a wooden shack.
• I turned to the very end of the book, to read
the final words.
• ...The tuileries, in the very heart of Paris.

• He was wrong from the very beginning.

• We still do not have enough women at the very

top.
Use very with nouns to emphasize that
something is exactly the right one or
exactly the same one.
• Everybody says he is the very man for the case.

• She died in this very house.

• In my view, it only perpetuates the very problem that

it sets out to cure.

• 'Most secret', he called it. Those were his very

words.

• Synonyms: exact, actual, precise, same more

synonyms of very
 RESUME
• Very, so, and too can all be used to intensify the
meaning of an adjective, an adverb, or a word
like much or many. However, they are not used in
the same way. Very is the simplest intensifier. It
has no other meaning beyond that.
• Too and enough indicate degree. They modify
adjectives, adverbs, and nouns
• Too suggests an excessive or undesirable amount,
often so much that a particular result does not or
cannot happen.
THE END