Enough and too
Место enough в предложении:
Enough стоит после прилагательных и наречий:
— He didn’t get job because he wasn’t experienced enough.
— You won’t pass the examination if you don’t work hard enough.
— She can’t get married yet. She’s not old enough.
Enough стоит перед существительными:
— He didn’t get the job because he didn’t have enough experience.
— I’d like to go on holiday but I haven’t enough money.
— Some of us had to sit on the floor because there weren’t enough chairs.
Вы также можете употреблять слово enough само по себе :
— I’ll lend you some money if you haven’t got enough.
После enough и too можно сказать for someone/something:
— I haven’t
— He wasn’t experienced enough for the job.
— This shirt is too big for me. I need a smaller size.
Однако, обычно мы не говорим `enough/too…for doing something’. Мы употребляем to + infinitive после enough и too.
Так мы говорим `enough money to do something’, `old enough to do something’, `too young to do something’ и т. д.:
— I haven’t got enough money to go on holiday.
— He wasn’t experienced enough to do the job.
— She’s only sixteen. She’s not old enough to get married.
— Let’s get a taxi. It’s too far to walk.
— There weren’t enough chairs for everyone to sit down.
— The weather wasn’t nice enough to go swimming.
— He spoke too quickly for us to understand.
Мы говорим:
— The food was so hot that we couldn’t eat it. и: The food was very hot. We couldn’t eat it.
Или мы говорим:
— The food was too hot to eat.
Вот еще несколько примеров, как этот:
— That picture is too heavy to hang on the wall.
— I had to carry my wallet in my hand. It was too big to put in my pocket.
— The water wasn’t clean enough to swim in.
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