2017-10-03 Grammar: intensifiers in sentences

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 135 exercise 9 - read p. 134 and then combine the information into one sentence for each number, using “too” or “enough”
1 Denise has too many responsibilities to take a vacation right now.
2 The pace of work is too hectic for Denise to do her best work.
3 Denise’s assistant works too slowly for Denise to catch up on her correspondence.
4 Mr. Green hasn’t assigned Denise enough additional support for her to meet the contract deadline.
5 Denise is too proud to ask her boss for more help.
6 Denise isn’t nice enough to Peter for him to offer to help her with the contract.
7 There is always enough free time for Peter to spend on his friends, his music, and his family.
  Peter always has enough free time to spend on...
8 Peter plays the clarinet well enough to be a professional musician.
9 He doesn’t like Denise enough to help her meet her contract deadline.
10 Work is not important enough for Peter to make it the focus of his life.
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It’s not hot. I don’t want to go swimming. -> It’s not hot enough to go swimming.
It’s cold. I don’t want to go swimming. -> It’s too cold to go swimming.
It’s warm. We can go swimming. -> It’s warm enough to go swimming.
It’s not cold. We can go swimming. -> It’s not too cold to go swimming.
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“not enough” and “too” mean we CAN’T do something
“enough” and “not too” mean we CAN so something
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p. 128 Focus 2 - Ask your partner about these things.
1 He plays baseball well enough. / He is good enough at baseball. / He’s a good enough baseball player.
2 Jude is extremely fond of beer. = He really likes beer. = He likes beer a lot.
3 She is a bit uncomfortable when the weather is cold. Dancing is not his best skill.
4 He doesn’t play soccer well enough. / He is not good enough at soccer.
5 I’m slightly too serious about my job. She drinks too much water.
6 I’m extremely punctual. She plays the piano very well. She’s a very good pianist.
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“really” can go in front of (some) verbs, but NOT “very”, “extremely”, etc.
Those intensifiers can go in front of adjectives and adverbs.
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Positions of intensifiers
adjectives and adverbs:
	hot enough, too hot, pretty hot, really hot
	quickly enough, too quickly, pretty quickly, really quickly
verbs: (We can use noncount quantifiers to intensify verbs.)
	I don’t go to the gym enough. I miss the bus too much.
nouns:
	I don’t have enough money. I don’t have much money. I have too many books.