Enough

1 Enough comes after adjectives (without nouns) and adverbs.

adjective/adverb + enough

• Is it warm enough for you? (NOT . . . enough warm . . .)


• You're not driving fast enough

2 Enough comes before nouns.

enough (+ adjective) + noun

• Have you got enough milk? (NOT . .. enough of milk.)


• There isn't enough blue paint left.

We use enough of before pronouns and determiners (for example the,my, this).

enough of + pronoun

• We didn't buy enough of them

enough of + determiner (+ adjective) + noun

• The exam was bad. I couldn't answer enough of the questions.


• Have we got enough of those new potatoes?

3 We can use an infinitive structure after enough.

... enough... + infinitive

• She's old enough to do what she wants.
  


• I haven't got enough money to buy a car.

.. . enough... + for+ object + infinitive

• It's late enough for us to stop work.