'Enough '

'Enough' means 'as much as necessary'. It can be used with an adjective, an adverb, a verb or a noun. It can also act as a pronoun.

🏷️With adjectives and adverbs

enough comes after adjectives and adverbs.

✏️I'm not tall enough to reach the top shelf.

✏️Your marks are good enough to study engineering at university.

✏️I couldn't write quickly enough and I ran out of time.

✏️I've helped at conferences often enough to know what can go wrong.

🏷️With verbs

enough comes after verbs.

✏️I make sure I drink enough during the day.

✏️I don't read enough but I'm going to start downloading books to my phone.

🏷️With nouns

enough comes before nouns.

✏️There isn't enough bread to make sandwiches.

✏️Have you got enough money?

🏷️As a pronoun

enough can also be used without a noun.

✏️I'll get some more chairs. There aren't enough.

✏️A: Do you want more coffee? B: No, I've had enough, thanks.

📎We know what the noun is because of the context.

🏷️With an adjective and a noun

When enough is used with an adjective and a noun, two positions are possible but the meaning changes.

✏️We haven't got big enough envelopes.

✏️We haven't got enough big envelopes.

📎When enough is after the adjective (big enough envelopes), it describes the adjective – the envelopes are too small. When enough is before the adjective (enough big envelopes), it describes the noun phrase – we have some big envelopes, but we need more.

🏷️Enough of

We normally only use enough of when it is followed by a determiner or a pronoun (a/an/the, this/that, my/your/his, you/them, etc.).

✏️There isn't enough of that bread to make sandwiches for everyone.

✏️I've seen enough of his work to be able to recommend him.

There's enough of us to make a difference.