TOO and ENOUGH | Use and meaning in English

hello everyone this is Andrew at Crown Academy of English today we are doing a lesson about the words too and enough so let's start the music is too loud mark is strong enough to carry three boxes so the words too and enough describe the degree of something or the level of something so here is the word too and here is the word enough and in the two examples above they are used with adjectives okay adjectives so here is the adjective so here the word too is describing the degree of loudness and here the adjective is strong and so the word enough is describing the degree or level of strength okay so during this lesson you will learn first of all the meaning of 2 and enough and then I will explain how to use 2 and enough with adjectives adverbs and nouns and we will look at both countable nouns and uncountable nouns and at the end there are some exercises at the end of the lesson okay so what is the meaning of two so we will look at our example again the music is too loud so this means that the loudness or the volume of the music is more than what is wanted so the meaning of two is more than what is needed or wanted it also means more than suitable more than enough we can also say the degree of something is excessive or the amount of something is excessive so the music is excessively loud okay so that is the meaning of two let's now look at some examples so this first of all we will look at two with an adjective don't like address it is too long so this means it is excessively long it is longer than is needed or wanted notice the form - is before the adjective the adjective is long and we write - before it that is very important example - she is too short to play basketball this time the form is again we have to before the adjective and here we have an infinitive so we have the verb in the infinitive too short to play basketball so the meaning of this sentence is she cannot play basketball because she is too short she is excessively short okay so 2 + adjective plus a verb in the infinitive we can also use 2 to modify an adverb remember that an adverb describes a verb he's going to be late because he's walking too slowly and 2 again is before the adverb so slowly is the adverb slowly describes the verb okay he's walking slowly and too modifies the word slowly so it means that he is walking excessively slowly okay example 2 Jane is always tired because she works too hard too hard so here we are using the word hard as an adverb she works hard she works too hard means that she works excessively hard harder than is wanted or suitable okay so to before the adverb we can also use to before a noun and if the noun is a countable noun then we use too many okay example I have bought too many bananas too many bananas and as you can see we write too many before the countable noun so banana is a countable noun because we can count a banana a banana is an individual object we can have one banana and we can have three bananas or several bananas so if the noun is countable then we must use too many and of course the countable noun is in the plural form so we must write the letter S at the end to indicate that it is plural another example there are too many books in the library so the word book is a countable noun we can have one book or several books so we must use too many this means there is an excessive number of books and again the noun is in the plural okay and notice as well that since the noun is in the plural the verb is in the plural - there are ok there are if the noun is an uncountable noun then we must use too much so we always write too much before an uncountable noun not too many example I have cooked too much pasta this means I have cooked an excessive amount of pasta pasta in English is uncountable so we write too much and again too much is before the uncountable noun and uncountable nouns are always in the singular form so there is no s here another example they have drunk too much wine they are going to be ill so wine is a liquid and often liquids are uncountable so we say too much wine this means they have drunk an excessive amount of wine too much now let's look at the word enough well what is the meaning well here is the example again mark is strong enough to carry three boxes now this means that mark has sufficient strength sufficient or we can say that it means mark has the necessary degree of strength or the necessary amount of strength ok so this is the meaning of enough the sufficient degree of something or the necessary degree of something the necessary amount of something now let us look at some examples this time we will look at enough with an adjective the car costs 200,000 pounds 200,000 pounds I have 400,000 pounds so that means that I am rich enough to buy the car I am rich enough to buy the car so this is very important look at the position enough is after the adjectives it is after the adjectives it is not before the adjectives remember the word too was before the adjectives but the word enough we always write it after the adjectives so this is very very important we do not say I am enough rich that is wrong we must say I am rich enough and in this example we also have an infinitive we can say I am rich enough to buy the car this is the infinitive here okay example two Jane is only ten years old she is not old enough to drive a car she is not old enough to drive a car again notice the order we write the adjective first old and then the word enough so this means that she is not sufficiently old okay and again here we have an infinitive to drive she is not old enough to drive a car we can also use enough to modify an adverb an adverb she is losing the race we can see that she is behind everybody else she is not running quickly enough so quickly is the adverb quickly describes how she is running and enough modifies the word quickly enough is telling us the degree of how quickly she is running okay and again very important enough is after the adverb after the adverb very important example two the team is playing well enough to win the game well enough to win the game so this means the team is playing sufficiently well again we have the adverb first and then the word enough and here we have an infinitive so we have the adverb enough followed by the infinitive to win we can also use enough with nouns both countable nouns and uncountable nouns and it is the same word for countable nouns and uncountable it is always the word enough only three people are coming to the meeting there are enough chairs okay so there are enough chairs for everybody so the form is enough and it is before a countable noun and of course the countable noun is in the plural form chairs with an S do we have enough plates so this is the question do we have enough plates this means do we have a sufficient number of plates and again the noun is in the plural form because it is accountable now we can also use enough with an uncountable noun okay so it's the same word for countable and uncountable sorry there isn't enough cheese for everyone so enough is before the uncountable noun the uncountable now is cheese and we write enough before it and uncountable nouns are always in the singular form cheese I would like to buy this watch but I don't have enough money enough money money is the uncountable noun okay money is uncountable in English and we write enough before it and money is singular okay so now let us look at two exercises I would like you to complete the following sentences with the correct word in brackets example I don't like eating ice cream it is something cold so for all of these questions I want you to choose either the word two or enough so the answer is two it is excessively cold it is too cold okay so question one and I will give you a few seconds to the to answer it the answer is I can't hear you you aren't speaking loudly enough loudly enough so notice that enough we write it after the adverb question two the answer is is there enough paper in the printer enough paper so paper is the now and we write enough before the now question three Jane isn't coming to the party because she is too tired too tired so tired is an objective and be right to before the objective question for the answer is she's 30 years old she's old enough to smoke old enough to smoke question 5 and the answer is mark can't go to the cinema tonight he doesn't have enough money he doesn't have enough money question six the answer is don't buy that shirt it is too small for you it is too small for you that means it is excessively small for you exercise 2 completes the following sentences with the correct words in brackets example so for all of these sentences I want you to choose between too many or too much the answer is I think you have bought too many apples too many apples Apple is a countable noun so we say too many question 1 the answer is I'm not hungry you have given you have given me too much rice too much rice rice is uncountable so we say too much question too the answer is please be quiet you are making too much noise noise is uncountable in English so we say too much question 3 the answer is this party is terrible there are too many children okay now children is an irregular noun it is an irregular plural it is the plural of child but child is still countable it is a countable noun so we say too many children question four the answer is I'm confused you have given me too much information now in English information is uncountable okay so that means we must write too much information and it is of course in the singular form question five the answer is I am fat because I eat too many sweets so sweet is countable in English so we must write too many okay so you can see in all of these questions it is very important to know if a verb is countable or uncountable so it is very important to know the difference between countable nouns and uncountable nouns okay so that is the end of the lesson if you want to subscribe you can click here on the screen here is my Twitter account and if you want more information about countable and uncountable nouns okay if you feel that you need to learn more about countable and uncountable nouns there are three videos that I have done about this so I advise you to watch these three videos to learn more about countable and uncountable nouns okay there we are that is the end thank you very much for watching my name is Andrew at Crown Academy of English I will see you very soon bye bye

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Length: 27min 31sec (1651 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 21 2015