2018-07-24 Grammar: degree complements

Greg Malivuk
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p. 131 exercise 5 - Complete these sentences with “too” or “very”.
(Start in class. If you don’t finish by 2:50, complete the rest as homework.)
1 too
2 very
3 too
4 very
5 too
6 too, very (It’s strange to say “very sure”. “Pretty sure” is more common.)
7 too
8 very
9 very
10 too
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With “too” (and with comparatives) we can use intensifiers to show how excessive it is.
I have $100.
Something that costs $110 is a little too expensive. / a (little) bit too expensive
Something that costs $600 is way/far/much too expensive. (“way” is informal)
Something that costs $99 is almost too expensive.
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p. 132 exercise 7 - Choose things from this list (or other things) that you don’t like.
Use an intensifier and “too” to explain why you don’t like them.
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p. 134 focus 6 - Degree complements with “too” and “enough” (and “so”)
Some teenagers are too immature to make good decisions. (use infinitive)
Some teenagers are not mature enough to make good decisions. (use infinitive)
Some teenagers are so immature that they can’t make good decisions. (use “that” and a clause)
This is too spicy for me to eat, but my wife loves it. (use “for” to specify the subject of the infinitive)
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p. 135 exercise 9 - Use “too” or “enough” and degree complements to combine the information in each pair of sentences.
1 Denise has too many responsibilities to take a vacation right now.
  Denise doesn’t have enough free time to take a vacation.
2 The pace of work is too hectic for Denise to do her best work.
  The pace of work is not calm enough for Denise...
3 Denise’s assistant works too slowly for Denise to catch up on her correspondence.
  Denise’s assistant doesn’t work fast enough for Denise...
4 Mr. Green hasn’t assigned Denise enough additional support for her to meet the deadline.
  Mr. Green has assigned too little support for her to meet the deadline.
5 Denise is too proud to ask her boss for more help.
6 Denise isn’t nice enough for Peter to offer to help her with the contract.
7 There is always enough free time for Peter to spend on his friends...
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.
  He dislikes her too much to help her.
10 Work is not important enough for Peter to make it the focus of his life.
   Work is too unimportant for Peter to make it the focus.
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Homework: p. 136 exercise 10