Hello everyone I'm a trainer Ria, and in today's lesson we will learn about
the word 'enough'
Now firstly, you must remember what the definition is of enough, enough simply means that there is a
necessary degree of strength or sufficient strength, let me write that down for you
necessary degree of strength. I'll explain this to by using an example, for example - I'm making myself a lovely
cup of tea and I want quite 2 teaspoons of sugar in my cup, now when I look into
the sugar pot, I find that there's almost 2 teaspoons, now I find that, that is enough
for me, right? So, to make a lovely cup of tea, I will pour out all the sugar into my cup, mix
it up and drink, right...so that much sugar was enough for me. If it was only one teaspoon of
sugar I wouldn't have liked my tea.. so to you have something as
enough would mean that it is sufficient enough for you or there is a
necessary degree of strength
Let's look at 'enough' with different parts of speech
firstly let's look at adjectives, the first thing that you need to remember is
the adjective will come before enough in a sentence.....
let's look at a sentence right now. I'm old enough to vote
explaining this is in an example - I've got a cousin who have just turned 18 and she
is very eager to vote or maybe she's very eager to obtain a driving licence. Now if
she was 17 years of age she would not have been able to vote or she would not
have been able to obtain a driving licence. Since she has just turned 18, she
is at the right age the legal age to obtain a license or to vote. So that is how
we will use enough in the sentence .... you use the adjective first...
I'm old and then you add the word enough to vote ... explaining enough in the
second sentence with an adjective. She is smart enough to decide for herself. Say in a
situation where a girl is going through a lot of problems in a relationship and
she maybe she has enough intellect to decide for herself she knows what is
better for herself and she doesn't need anybody's advice or anybody's help so
she is smart enough to decide what she's about to do or what she should decide on
that relationship. So, in this sentence as usual you will put the adjective before enough, she is
smart enough to decide for herself, she has suffcient intellect to decide about the
matter. Now looking at different parts of speech
which is adverb, please remember that an adverb is used to modify a verb
in this sentence again you will have to remember that an Adverb will come before
before the word enough. She's running quickly enough to reach on time. Now
running is the verb, okay... to modify running you have the word quickly and after that
we have the word enough now somebody has to reach somewhere on
time maybe she's running after the bus to catch the bus quickly enough, okay so..
that she can reach her destination on time now if she's running at a
slower.... at a slower pace, would she be able to reach reach the bus or
probably hang on to the buss or catch the train no she has to she
has to run quickly enough or rapidly enough so that she can actually
actually catch the bus and that will take her to her destination so I will explain
this part of this sentence, running is the verb and quickly that modifies
the verb which is the adverb and she was running
quickly enough it means with sufficient speed. Looking at the word in
another sentence, The stock market is rising steadily enough after
the crash. Now there's a market crash and after that usually there is not enough
speed on how the market actually climbs, but in this sentence we
are seeing that the stock market actually is rising very very steadily, okay. There's
so much hope with the stock market. The stock market is rising, rising being the
verb, steadily... it is rising steadily.... at the same speed so that is an adverb
this describes how it is rising and enough means with enough or sufficient speed
Now, let's look at another part of speech, which is known a Noun
Noun is a naming word. So, enough plus a noun...Now, please remember with the other two parts of
speech the adjective and the adverb came before enough, but in this one enough
will come before the noun, so let's look at the first sentence. Are there enough
students to make a batch? Now, in this sentence enough comes before students, let me also
highlight that students are countable nouns, countable nouns being.. for
example you can count them
one student, two students, three students five, seven, nine....okay. So, this is a countable noun. Now, let's
look at an example- Let's say that an institute is making a batch, there are about 15
students, is that enough to make a batch? Definitely it's not, So here a
negative point comes in, it is ... Are there enough students to make a batch? So, with that
the answer would be - There are not enough students to make a batch. In case there
are about 20 students then we're definitely making a batch. The students
are enough to make
a batch. So, Are there enough students to make a batch? Now we've got twenty... yes... there
is or there are enough... sorry about that.... there are enough students to make a
batch and another thing that you need to remember is students is plural, it is
countable noun, it is plural, so with the plural noun the helping verb will also be
plural. Looking at the second sentence where it's different. There isn't enough pasta left for
everyone. Pasta being an uncountable noun, can you count pasta? that is an uncountable noun and
students being a countable noun
let me just write that out for you. Now in this sentence - There isn't enough pasta for everyone
pasta being uncountable, so we're using enough before pasta and the helping verb
that we're using in this sentence would be singular. This is always the case when
you're using a helping verb with uncountable noun, okay it is always going
to be singular, on the other hand if you were using a countable noun the helping verb is going to be plural
There isn't enough pasta left for everyone . I was making pasta the other day and it was very yummy
very very delicious, so I made quite enough for everyone and everybody
started eating it and there wasn't enough left.
So there was not enough left for the other batch of visitors who came, so I would
always say - There isn't enough pasta for everyone, maybe I should make some more
of my lovely pasta. So, this is a negative sentence - There isn't enough pasta
left for everyone. I hope you have enjoyed today's lesson, just to recap
Adjective - Enough would come after adjective.
Same is with adverbs, but with nouns, Enough will come before the noun.
I hope you've enjoyed and I will come back with another exciting lesson, till then please take care...