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Hans51 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

The location of the word enough

It is long enough.
I know that the sentence is correct.

It is a long enough rope.
It is a enough long rope.
Where should the word enough be located in the sentence?
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Enough comes before a noun but after an adjective Enough+noun Drink enough water. Adjective+enough The hotel is good enough. You can also use enough after some verbs like a noun I can't get enough of you (a sentence we use to express our passion for sb)

  • Enough comes before a noun but after an adjective Enough+noun Drink enough water.
  • Adjective+enough The hotel is good enough.
  • You can also use enough after some verbs like a noun I can't get enough of you (a sentence we use to express our passion for sb)
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Enough comes before a noun but after an adjective

Enough+noun

Drink enough water.

Adjective+enough

The hotel is good enough.

You can also use enough after some verbs like a noun

I can't get enough of you (a sentence we use to express our passion for sb)

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Hans51It is a long enough rope. OK.
It is an enough long rope. NO.

Even though the first one is OK, we don't often say it like that. We say

The/That rope is long enough.

But with 'time', we say

If you d

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