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Enough comes after adjectives (without nouns) and adverbs.
adjective/adverb + enough

  • Is it warm enough for you? (NOT . . . enough warm . . .)
  • You're not driving fast enough

Enough comes before nouns.
enough (+ adjective) + noun

  • Have you got enough milk? (NOT . .. enough of milk.)
  • 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. I 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.
  • I haven't got enough money to buy a car.

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

  • It's late enough for us to stop work.

 

Vera, 487 days ago 2
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