hi everyone and welcome back to the english danny channel i'm teacher john and i'm here
to help you become great at learning english alright so today's topic is actually a lot of
grammar and it's a higher level topic but i'm sure that you can definitely get the hang of it
and our topic today is how to use the word enough and enough it has a lot of different
ways that we can use it okay so make sure that you stick around and watch until the end of
the video if you want to know how to use the word enough enough as defined by a dictionary
means as much as is necessary okay and let's use it in a sentence so that you can see how we use it
i made enough food for my family meaning as much food as is necessary or she did have enough money
meaning that she had as much money as was necessary all right now let's look at
our first structure for enough which is when we use an adjective or an adverb and enough
okay and when enough modifies the adjective or the adverb it usually it comes after
the adjective or adverb so let's see an example my house is big enough or the jacket is warm enough
all right now let's look at our next grammar structure enough can also be used before a noun
or a noun phrase as a determiner okay and we'll talk later in this video about what a determiner
is so let's see an example here i've eaten enough food today or there isn't enough water
i think that it's important to see here that enough is used before the noun okay if you say
there isn't water enough that is incorrect and here is an important tip for you to remember
we usually do not use of when there is no other determiner okay and we talked about
that i would say what a determiner is uh in this video and it a determiner is an article
like uh or the okay or a possessive noun so let's see an example of this in it
for example i've eaten enough of food today is incorrect okay we would say i've eaten
enough food today okay because we usually don't use enough of and then a noun however
we can use of without a determiner in some cases such as personal names or geographical names
okay for example i've had enough of john today or i've seen enough of england i'm going home our
next grammar structure with enough is its position when we use an adjective and a noun together
okay we can change the position to change the meaning of the sentence so usually enough follows
an adjective which it modifies however when enough modifies an adjective and a noun it comes before
the adjective it doesn't follow it so let's see an example okay the first example we don't
have small enough hands and the meaning here is that we need smaller hands the hands are too big
okay example two we don't have enough small hands meaning we need more small hands
okay we have too many big hands our next grammar structure for enough is when to use enough of okay
and we would use enough of before determiners okay so or my or your something like that
and pronouns okay so we can use enough of before those things so let's see an example
she saw enough of the movie i've seen enough of them and we can use infinitive structures
after the word enough so let's see that an example she is old enough to drive
he is tall enough to play basketball well all right and this is actually very common
in spoken english and that is using the word enough without a noun okay
enough can be used alone if the meaning is clear okay so let's see some examples of this
for example sometimes someone might say that's enough
right there's no noun in that sentence but that's because the meaning is clear from the context
if something is happening around you or another example two pieces of pizza is enough thank you
all right so again we don't need a noun to follow uh enough this last one is actually it's very uh i
would say advanced level grammar in english but if you learn it it's very easy okay the article
the can also be used to mean enough all right and we can just leave out enough and use the
sounds interesting right so let's look at some examples so for example i had the strength
to lift the rock and this means enough strength i had enough strength or i don't have the money
to buy a new car and this means enough money i don't have enough money to buy a new car
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