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Topic Summary - Adjectives / Adverbs & Comparisons

3. Other Structures in Comparison

Too - Enough
Too: çok, aşırı, gereğinden fazla gibi anlamlarda kullanılır ve olumlu cümlede kullanılmasına rağmen cümleye olumsuz bir anlam katar.

“Too” farklı kullanım yapılarına sahiptir.
too + adjective / adverb

▪ Slow down! You are driving too fast.
▪ Don’t touch the pot, dear! It is too hot.
too + adjective / adverb + to infinitive

▪ As it is too cold to go out tonight, let’s stay in and watch a movie together.
▪ It’s too early to say that our sales rates are a success for the company.

too + much / many + noun
▪ I can’t focus on my studies because there is too much noise here.
▪ “What a crowded classroom! There are too many students here”, exclaimed the new teacher.

Enough: yeterince, yeteri kadar, yeterli gibi anlamlarda kullanılır. Olumlu cümlede kullanıldığında, eylemin yapabileceğimiz ölçüde
olduğunu ifade ederken olumsuz cümlede kullanıldığında ise eylemin yapabileceğimiz ölçüde olmadığını ifade eder.
“Enough” sıfat ve zarflardan önce, isimlerden sonra kullanılır.
adjective / adverb + enough + to infinitive

▪ The shop assistant was kind enough to carry the heavy shopping bags for me.
▪ Jane was talented enough to be chosen for the school team, but she was surprisingly eliminated by the coach.
enough + noun

▪ I don’t have enough money to buy a new computer.
▪ I think we have enough food for all the guests, so we don’t have to order any more.

“Too” ile ifade edilen bir cümle, kullanılan sıfat ya da zarfın karşıt anlamlısını kullanarak, olumsuz bir cümlede “enough” ile
de aynı anlamda kullanılabilir.

▪ Diego, who is too rude to get on well with, doesn’t have many friends.
(İyi geçinilmeyecek kadar kaba olan Diego’nun çok arkadaşı yok.)

▪ Diego, who isn’t kind enough to get on well with, doesn’t have many friends.
(İyi geçinmek için yeteri kadar nazik olmayan Diego’nun çok arkadaşı yok)

▪ Richard apologized to Rose, but it was too hard for him to make up for his mistake.
Richard apologized to Rose, but it wasn’t easy enough for him to make up for his mistake.

So … that / Such… that and Their Inverted Forms
“So” ve “such” niteledikleri sıfat ya da zarfları anlam olarak güçlendirir. “So” sıfat ve zarflarla; “such” ise sıfat tamlamaları ve bazen de
isimlerle kullanılır. “So” ve “such” cümleye çok, oldukça gibi anlamlar katarlar.
so + adjective / adverb so fast, so amazing, so beautiful, so calmly, so carelessly

so + many / much / few / little + noun so many people, so much money, so little time
such + a / an + adjective + singular noun such an exciting film, such a cute baby, such a boring game
such + adjective + plural noun such hard times, such kind people, such difficult questions
such + adjective + uncountable noun such tasteless coffee, such long hair, such cold weather

such + noun (means "this kind/type of…") such a thing, such problems, such furniture, such questions

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