English Grammar - Usage

Enough to and Too... to...

Enough to shows sufficiency and has a positive meaning.

• He is strong enough to lift that box.
• The boy is clever enough to understand this.
• We are not rich enough to buy a car.
• He was foolish enough to listen to her.

Too… to shows undesirable excess. It has a kind of negative meaning.

• She was too tired to walk.
• This is too good to be true.
• The coffee is too hot for me to drink.

Note that ‘She was too tired to walk’ means ‘She was so tired that she could not walk’.

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