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Hi, guys. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and
welcome to this lesson on "enough" and "too"
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with infinitives. So today, we're going to
look at a common grammatical pattern that
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we can use with "too" and "enough" and how to
follow those with infinitives. And remember,
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an infinitive is "to" plus the base form of
a verb, so "to play", "to swim", "to hang",
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"to chat", whatever it is. Now let's
look at, first, a common "too" pattern
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when we talk in English. So again, we use
"too" when we want to talk about an extreme.
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So here we can use: Too + adjective/adverb + infinitive.
Now if you're tired of looking
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at formulas, and you're better with just seeing
examples, examples, examples, well, guess
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what? I have many examples for you today.
First one is: "It's too hot to go outside",
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okay? So here you see the pattern: It is too
+ an adjective -- to go outside. So again,
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we don't say, "It's too hot going outside."
You have to follow it with an infinitive:
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"It's too hot to go outside." "It's too hot
to swim." "It's too hot to stand out in the
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backyard for more than 20 minutes", okay?
Another example, "She's too young." "She's
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too young to do what? She's too young to drink."
" She's too young to smoke." " She's too young
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to drive." Okay? "It's too early." "It's too
early to wake up." So Saturday morning it's,
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let's say, 6:30 a.m. Your alarm clock goes
off at 6:30 on a Saturday. Unless you work,
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that's way too early to wake up for most people.
If you enjoy it, hey, that's your life. Next,
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"He tried too much to impress his boss." Okay?
All right, guys, so again, this is the most
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common pattern with "too" when you want to
talk about -- and you want to use infinitives.
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So again, "It's too hot to go outside."
"She's too young to drink." "It's too early to wake up."
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"He tried too much to impress his boss." So
again, we don't say, "It's to go, too hot,
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outside." You know, we don't mix it up like that.
The pattern is: Too + adjective/adverb
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+ infinitive. Now, let's look at "enough".
Okay, so with "enough", we have a different
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structure. Now again, "enough" means "sufficient",
something that is "sufficient enough".
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So whereas we had, "too + adjective/adverb +
infinitive", here we have the adjective/adverb
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+ enough + infinitive. So for example, "He is
smart enough to pass." "She was fast enough
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to win." "He yelled loudly enough to wake
up our neighbours!" So again, you see the
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pattern with "too" and "enough" is different
in that, again, normally with "too", we have
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"too" before the adjective. With "enough" we
actually put "enough" after the adjective
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or the adverb in this situation. Okay? So
are you guys getting it so far? Yeah?
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All right. Let's look at one
more little rule with "enough".
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Okay, let's look at another pattern with "enough".
Whereas in the first pattern we had, "adjective/adverb
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+ enough", in this one we have, "enough +
noun + infinitive". So let's look at these
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examples. I think most people are familiar
and comfortable with this pattern. Maybe you
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don't know that we should add an infinitive
after it, though. So: "We don't have enough
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gas to make it to Vancouver." So again, "We
don't have enough": You have "enough"; you
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have the noun; and then you have the infinitive, "to make".
"To make it to Vancouver", means
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to arrive -- right? -- to Vancouver. "We have
enough money to go on vacation." So, "We have
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enough money to go" -- the infinitive "to
go" -- on vacation." "Money" is the noun in
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this situation. Okay, so this is the more
informal, everyday, common structure.
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If you want to sound proper in English, you
can also use the formal structure here. For
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this I'm going to do up my button, okay? Because
I have to be very formal for this. So:
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"We have money enough to go on vacation." So in
the formal structure you can actually put
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the noun before "enough" and then follow that
with the infinitive. If you speak like this,
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I don't know, maybe you'll make some friends.
Maybe people will look at you weird. I recommend
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speaking like this because this is more common, but
just be aware if you watch British television,
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British films, anything with formal English
in it, you might hear this pattern as well.
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Okay, guys. If you'd like to check your understanding
of how to use "too", how to use "enough" with
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infinitive patterns, you can check out the quiz
on www.engvid.com. Take care, and good luck.
