Rules for Enough Place enough directly after the adverb modified when using enough as an adverb to mean to the required degree or extent. Peter drove slowly enough for us to look at all the houses. The students studied carefully enough to do well on the exam.

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.

Enough is an adjective that describes something that is adequate for an intended purpose. Enough is also used as an adverb to mean sufficiently or fully. Enough also has senses as a pronoun and an interjection. Enough describes something as being adequate or sufficient.

You use enough after an adjective or adverb to say that someone or something has as much of a quality as is needed. It's big enough. We have a long enough list.

Enough is a determiner, a pronoun or an adverb. We use enough to mean 'as much as we need or want'.

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.

Position in a Sentence If 'enough' as an adverb modifies another adverb or an adjective, it comes after them. If it modifies a verb, it can stand at the end of the sentence after the verb. Remember that we should use to-infinitive after the adverb 'enough.