• (Grammar) How We Use Too and Enough In English

    Too. An adverb of excess; with to + infinitive and/or for + (pro)noun.

    This soup is very hot; I can't drink it.
    This soup is too hot (for me) to drink.

    That's a lot of money; a book like that shouldn't cost so much.
    That's too much money for a book like that.

    *Expect the mistake :
    This soup is too hot for me to drink it.

    The infinitive, even of a transitive verb, has no object if this would represent the same person or thing as the subject of the main verb, be, seem, etc.

    Enough. Whereas too has a negative sense, enough, also with infinitive, has positive sense.

    Compare :
    He is too ill to need a doctor.
    = He is so ill that it's useless to send for a doctor.

    He is ill enough to need a doctor.
    = He is so ill that we must send for a doctor at once.

    Enough comes in front of a noun and after an adjective or adverb.
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