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Youngbuts Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

not enough

Hello, everyone~

I'm having problems with the negation regading the adjective 'enough.' Would you take a look at the sentences below?

1.I don't have enough money.
2.I have not enough money.
3.I have not enough money for the car.
4.I don't have enough money for the car.
5.I don't have enough money to buy the car.
6.I have not enough money to buy the car.

I know 'He has not honest mind' is wrong. But All of the sentences above seem to be possible to me, Is it because I have heard so many times 'It is not enough'? So, I googled and I picked up some sample sentences looking like the above. But I can not be sure if they are right.

From what I have learned,I think it would be right to say 'I have no enough money'. But for 'not enough ', it's not certain. Would you teach me?

Many thanks in advance...
  

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Idiomatically, " I don't have enough time " (or money/ energy or whatever) is the correct collocation. If I say: I don't have enough money to pay for the dinner, I mean the dinner cost more than what I have in my wallet. However, " I have not enough money" is not wrong but uncommon.

— Grammarfreak

  • Idiomatically, " I don't have enough time " (or money/ energy or whatever) is the correct collocation.
  • If I say: I don't have enough money to pay for the dinner, I mean the dinner cost more than what I have in my wallet.
  • However, " I have not enough money" is not wrong but uncommon.
  • I have no enough money - is wrong.
  • But "I have no money/ time " is correct.
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Idiomatically, " I don't have enough time " (or money/ energy or whatever) is the correct collocation. If I say: I don't have enough money to pay for the dinner, I mean the dinner cost more than what I have in my wallet. However, " I have not enough money" is not wrong but uncommon. I have no enough money - is wrong. But "I have no money/ time " is correct.
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youngbuts2.I have not enough money.3.I have not enough money for the car. 6.I have not enough money to buy the car.
Those, in writing, and, with the contracted form haven't, in speech, are common enough among my (elderly) generation of speakers of BrE. Younger speakers do not use this construction much except in 'I haven't a clue'. This particular sente
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fivejedjonyoungbuts1.I don't have enough money.4.I don't have enough money for the car.5.I don't have enough money to buy the car.These would have been regarded as unacceptable Americanisms in my youth, but are not uncommon in BrE today. We can also say:
I haven't got enough money,
I haven't got enough money for the car.
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grammarfreakThere is nothing unacceptable about " I don't have enough money.."
I did not say that there is anything unacceptable about it now. I said that it was unacceptable in British English in my youth - which was fifty years ago. I quote from a book we used at the time, "Most verbs use the forms with the auxiliary do for the negative and int
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fivejedjonI said that it was unacceptable in British English in my youth - which was fifty years ago. I quote from a book we used at the time
Got it.
The thread aside, fifty years ago the world was a much different place then now as I learned it as a kid, and the only famous British I knew, other the the Queen, were Cliff Richard, Tom Jones, and the Beatl
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