A. Enough comes after adjectives/adverbs and before nouns. - He is old enough to see that movie. (NOT enough old) - We have enough books on this topic. (NOT books enough) B. Words ending in -thing, -body, -one, -where come before their adjectival modifiers. - I have something nice. (NOT nice something) - 1 have gone somewhere new. (NOT new somewhere) C. Subject-verb inversion Questions involve inversion between subject and verb, but indirect questions involve no such inversion. - I asked him how long he had been in America. (NOT how long had he been) When the sentence begins with a negative word, the subject comes after an auxiliary verb. - Rarely does he work at night. (NOT Rarely he works) - Not until yesterday did he change his mind. |