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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:16 am Post subject: enough |
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| A desire for safety and security is not enough of a reason to bring South Korean troops home. |
Is the quote a correct sentence?
I think that 'A desire for safety and security is not an enough reason to bring South Korean troops home.' is rather right than the quoted sentence.
Could you correct me if I am wrong?
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rice07
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:01 am Post subject: |
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Hi
A desire for safety and security is not a reason to bring South Korean troops home.
Before determiners ( e.g. a, the, my, this, that ) and pronouns, we use enough of.
A desire for safety and security is not enough of a reason to bring South Korean troops home.
Note the idiomatic structure I've had enough of.... This can be followed by a noun without a determiner.
I've had enough of mathematics; I'm going to give it up.
But I am not sure whether an enough reason is possible or not in this case?[/b] |
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Lorikeet
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: enough |
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| "A desire for safety and security is not an enough reason...." sounds wrong to me. However, "A desire for safety and security is not a sufficient reason to bring...." sounds okay. |
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