Наречие «too» употребляется перед прилагательным или наречием, и означает «слишком». Наречие «enough» употребляется, как правило, перед существительным, но после прилагательного или наречия, и означает «достаточно». Местоимение «such» употребляется с существительным (перед которым может стоять прилагательное) и означает «такой». Местоимение «so» употребляется с прилагательным (после которого нет существительного) или наречием и означает «такой / так».
| Неправильно | Правильно |
|---|---|
| She is very young to drink alcohol. | She is too young to drink alcohol. |
| He is not very tough to play football. | He is not tough enough to play football. |
| We were blessed with so good weather on the trip. | We were blessed with such good weather on the trip. |
| We were blessed with such a good weather on the trip. | We were blessed with such good weather on the trip. |
| Правило | Пример |
|---|---|
| so + прил. | The meal was so good! It was worth the money. The music is so loud I can’t sleep. |
| so + нар. | He paints so well! I am sure he is going to become a famous artist. She spoke so quickly that I couldn’t understand her. |
| so + many / few + мн. ч. | I never knew you had so many brothers! She has so few friends! It’s really quite sad. |
| so + much / little + неисчисл. сущ. | They have so little food! We need to do something to help them. Jake earns so much money that he has lost all sense of what a dollar is worth. |
| so + much / little / often / rarely | Earl drinks so much! My sister visits us so rarely! |
| Правило | Пример |
|---|---|
| such + прил. + сущ. | Don has such a big house that I actually got lost on the way to the bathroom. Shelly has such beautiful eyes that she got a job as a make-up model. |
| such + оценочное сущ. | He is such an idiot that nobody would hire him. |
| such + сущ. (подобный / такого рода) | She usually doesn’t receive such criticism. |
| Правило | Пример |
|---|---|
| too + прил. | She has too much money. He is too old to ride the Merry-Go-Round. |
| too + нар. | He is driving too fast. You’ve got the telly on too loud. |
| Правило | Пример |
|---|---|
| прил. + enough | Tony was tall enough to play on the basketball team. |
| нар. + enough | Did they respond enough quickly to help? |
| enough + сущ. | I have enough money for the CD player. There aren’t enough people to make a team. |
| enough | I have had enough of this nonsense. |
| Enough is enough! |
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