Vocabulary: the use of enough after adverbs
What is the difference between interestingly and interestingly enough?
Can I add enough after all adverbs ? If not, please bring up the words that go with enough.
Kindly elucidate the distinction contextually!
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jayprakash Singh What is the difference between interestingly and interestingly enough? "Enough" adds an implication to "interestingly" that there is something about the fact to be mentioned that is ironic or unexpectedly coincidental or suggestive of collusion, etc. This is a somewhat different "enough" from the usual one meaning "sufficiently".
- jayprakash Singh What is the difference between interestingly and interestingly enough?
- "Enough" adds an implication to "interestingly" that there is something about the fact to be mentioned that is ironic or unexpectedly coincidental or suggestive of collusion, etc.
- This is a somewhat different "enough" from the usual one meaning "sufficiently".
- This one means something more like a weak "quite".
- Johnson called it "‘a slight augmentation of the sense of the positive".
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jayprakash SinghWhat is the difference between interestingly and interestingly enough?
"Enough" adds an implication to "interestingly" that there is something about the fact to be mentioned that is ironic or unexpectedly coincidental or suggestive of collusion, etc. This is a somewhat different "enough" from the usual one meaning "sufficiently". This one me
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