B10. A helping hand
too+ adjective, not + adjective +enough
Mr. Hopkins was walking down the street one day when he noticed a small boy. The boy was standing outside a house. He was trying to ring the doorbell but the problem was that he was too short to reach up to the bell. As Mr. Hopkins watched, he tried to jump up to press the bell, but he just wasn't tall enough. Then the boy got a book out of his school bag and stood on it, but the book wasn't thick enough and the bell was still too high up for him to reach.
The man felt sorry for the boy and decided to go and help him. He walked over to the door, smiled at the little boy and rang the door bell three times.
Then he turned to the boy and said kindly, 'So now what, little man?'
'Now,' the boy replied, 'we run away as fast as possible!'
Grammar: too + adjective,not + adjective + enough
You can talk about some problems using these forms:too + adjective (too hot, too difficult) or not+ adjective + enough ( not good enough, not big enough)
For example, when the bath water is colder than you want it to be, you can say it in these two different ways.
It's too cold.
It's not warm enough.
When you can't do something because of a problem of degree you can use these forms:
These bags are too heavy for me to carry.
I'm not strong enough to carry these bags
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