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113 enough

Enough comes after adjectives (without nouns) and adverbs.
adjective/adverb + enough
{s it warm enough for you? (NOT ... eneugh-warnr ...)
You're not driving fast enough.

Enough comes before nouns.

| enough (+ adjective) + noun |

Have you got enough milk? (NOT ... eneugt
mitt)
ef
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. | couldn't answer enough of the questions.
Have we got enough of those new potatoes?
We can use an infinitive structure after enough.
... enough... + infinitive
She's old enough to do what she wants.
{haven't got enough money to buy a car.

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

It’s late enough for us to stop work.
114 even

We can use even to talk about surprising extremes — when people ‘go
too far’, or do more than we expect, for example. Even usually goes in
‘mid-position’ (see 13.2).

auxiliary verb + even
be + even

She has fost half her clothes. She has even lost two pairs of shoes.
(NOT ... Evershehastest ...)
She is rude to everybody. She is even rude to the police.
(NOT Even-sheistude ...)
even + other verb
They do everything together. They even brush their teeth together.
He speaks Jots of languages. He even speaks Eskimo.