adjective + ENOUGH + TO-infinitive – English Grammar Profiler

PELIC STUDENT EXAMPLE:

Be a hard-working student and clever enough to achieve your goals in time.

Arabic, Male, Level 4, writing class

The English Grammar Profile often has overlapping points with no differences. B2 point 65 in ADJECTIVES & modifying and point 89 in CLAUSES & comparatives are both defined as:

‘enough’ after adjectives followed by ‘to’-infinitive.

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A search on iWeb corpus for _j* enough to _v?i*

I had been fortunate enought to be asked.

1 BEEN (VBN ) 1219
2 THOSE (DD2 ) 438
3 AM (VBM ) 362
4 ‘RE (VBR ) 262
5 ‘VE (VH0 ) 204

5 SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT 5554
6 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE 4173
7 GOOD ENOUGH TO BE 4018
8 OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER 3619
9 LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD 3576
10 OLD ENOUGH TO BE 3507
11 LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND 3302
12 SMALL ENOUGH TO BE 3272
13 LARGE ENOUGH TO BE 2925
14 SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW 2713
15 GOOD ENOUGH TO GET 2709
16 LARGE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE 2681
17 STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD 2528
18 BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD 2447
19 LUCKY ENOUGH TO SEE 2439
20 OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE 2337
21 LUCKY ENOUGH TO LIVE 2239
22 GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE 2185
23 BIG ENOUGH TO FIT 1968
24 BIG ENOUGH TO BE 1841
25 LARGE ENOUGH TO FIT 1815
26 STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPORT 1667
27 STRONG ENOUGH TO BE 1640
28 GOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY 1535
29 STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND 1532
30 GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN 1488
31 LUCKY ENOUGH TO WORK 1464
32 OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW 1437
33 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GET 1357
34 GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT 1309
35 LARGE ENOUGH TO HANDLE 1307
36 LARGE ENOUGH TO COVER 1212
37 OLD ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND 1196
38 STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE 1120
39 STRONG ENOUGH TO TAKE 1091
40 LUCKY ENOUGH TO MEET 1075
41 STRONG ENOUGH TO HANDLE 1023

B1 42 LARGE ENOUGH TO ALLOW 1011

Collocates 4 to the left and right: 1 PASS (VVI ) 31
2 FULL (JJ ) 27
3 ESCAPE (VVI ) 23
4 MOVEMENT (NN1 ) 22
5 AIR (NN1 ) 21

43 LUCKY ENOUGH TO VISIT 977
44 LUCKY ENOUGH TO CATCH 975
45 LUCKY ENOUGH TO ATTEND 953
46 GOOD ENOUGH TO KEEP 912
47 BIG ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE 909
48 COOL ENOUGH TO HANDLE 894
49 STRONG ENOUGH TO DO 890
50 STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP 890
51 LARGE ENOUGH TO HAVE 889
52 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WORK 883
53 GOOD ENOUGH TO DO 883
54 LUCKY ENOUGH TO RECEIVE 861

B2 55 FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO BE 836

56 BIG ENOUGH TO HAVE 827
57 LARGE ENOUGH TO MAKE 821

B2 58 HOT ENOUGH TO MELT 800

59 LUCKY ENOUGH TO WIN 791
60 SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE 790
61 BIG ENOUGH TO MAKE 775
62 BRAVE ENOUGH TO TRY 773
63 VERSATILE ENOUGH TO BE 772
64 SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE 767
65 FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO ALLOW 765
66 BIG ENOUGH TO COVER 758
67 LUCKY ENOUGH TO OWN 755
68 YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE 753

B2 69 UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE 752

70 LUCKY ENOUGH TO GO 750
71 LARGE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT 731
72 DURABLE ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND 726
73 STRONG ENOUGH TO STAND 709
74 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO LIVE 696
75 SMALL ENOUGH TO CARRY 691
76 STRONG ENOUGH TO GET 674
77 LUCKY ENOUGH TO SPEND 667
78 BIG ENOUGH TO GET 664
79 UNLUCKY ENOUGH TO BE 664
80 STRONG ENOUGH TO CARRY 654
81 IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO BE 651
82 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO FIND 643
83 COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO WEAR 639
84 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO SEE 638
85 GOOD ENOUGH TO TAKE 633
86 LARGE ENOUGH TO PROVIDE 611
87 OLD ENOUGH TO DRIVE 608
88 SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND 602
89 GOOD ENOUGH TO GO 600
90 OLD ENOUGH TO GET 597
91 GENTLE ENOUGH TO USE 592
92 GOOD ENOUGH TO BEAT 583
93 LARGE ENOUGH TO CONTAIN 579
94 GOOD ENOUGH TO HAVE 577
95 BIG ENOUGH TO HANDLE 563
96 UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE 563
97 BIG ENOUGH TO TAKE 558
98 LIGHT ENOUGH TO BE 558
99 SIMPLE ENOUGH TO BE 552
100 LARGE ENOUGH TO CARRY 550

B1 VOCABULARY IN THESE TOP 100 Ngrams

allow, attend, beat, brave, contain, figure, gentle, handle, provide, realize, smart, support, unlucky

B2:

flexible, fortunate, melt, unfortunate

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