Enough用法的常見錯誤

⊙ By Liz Walter

Enough用法的常見錯誤

⊙ By Liz Walter

Avoiding Common Errors with the Word ENOUGH

Enough is a very common word, but it is easy to make mistakes with it. You need to be careful about its position in a sentence, and the prepositions or verb patterns that come after it.

I’ll start with the position of enough in the sentence. Enough在句中的位置

■ When we use it with a noun, it goes before the noun:

與名詞連用，enough應在名詞之前：

√ We have enough time to complete the work.

√ Do we have enough pens for everyone?

× We have time enough to complete the work.

■ When we use enough with an adjective or an adverb, it goes after the adjective or adverb:

與形容詞或副詞連用，enough應在形容詞或副詞之后：

√ Is this coat big enough for Tom?

√ Can you get there quickly enough?

× Is this coat enough big for Tom?

Now let’s look at using enough in negative sentences.在否定句式中使用enough

■ With an adjective or an adverb, it’s simple: just add not before the adjective or make the verb before it negative (often using the short form n’t):

與形容詞或副詞連用，把not放在形容詞或副詞之前，或者把動詞變成否定式（通常以n’t的縮略形式出現）：

√ He’s not old enough to travel alone.

√ She didn’t shout loudly enough.

Now let’s look at the patterns we use after enough.在enough后面的用法

■ If you want to follow enough with a noun, you need to use the preposition for. This is the case whether you are using an adjective, an adverb or a noun:

名詞跟在enough后，需要用介詞for；enough與形容詞或副詞連用，也需要用介詞for：

√ I have enough money for two tickets.

√ She spoke slowly enough for me to understand.

√ Is there enough food for all these people?

■ With a noun, there are two ways of doing it. The most common way is to use a negative verb with the subject of the sentence:

與名詞連用，有兩種方式，最常用的是把句子主語的謂語動詞變成否定式：

√ There aren’t enough knives and forks.

√ They didn’t make enough tickets available.

■ Alternatively, you can add not before enough:

或者在enough前加not：

√ Not enough tickets are available.

■ Remember that we don’t use “enough + noun” as the subject of a negative sentence:

在否定句中，不能用“enough + noun”作主語：

× Enough tickets aren’t available.

× Enough tickets weren’t made available.

■ And if you want to follow enough with a verb, you need to use a to-infinitive (do not use for):

跟在enough后的動詞需要用動詞不定式，切勿用for：

√ He wasn’t strong enough to lift the stone.

√ He ran quickly enough to catch his friend.

√ We didn’t have enough time to fnish our work.

× He wasn’t strong enough for lifting the stone.

× He ran quickly enough that he caught his friend.

Finally, we also use enough as a pronoun (instead of a noun): Enough可充當代詞，而不是名詞：

√ Have you had enough to eat?

√ I don’t need any more information. This is enough.

■ In the same way as I explained about “enough + noun,” we do not use enough as the subject of a sentence:

Enough不可作句子的主語：

√ I didn’t get enough.

× Enough wasn’t given to me.

And that’s enough about enough for now! I hope that this post will help you to use it with confdence.