Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
enough to help
“D’you think he meant you to do it?” said Ron. “Sending you your father’s cloak and everything?”
“Well, ” Hermione exploded, “if he did — I mean to say that’s terrible — you could have been killed.”
“No, it isn’t,” said Harry thoughtfully. “He’s a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don’t think it was an accident he let me find out how the mirror worked. It’s almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could…”
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
Is ‘to help’ a modifier for ‘enough’ or an adverbial to denote the purpose of previous act?
“Well, ” Hermione exploded, “if he did — I mean to say that’s terrible — you could have been killed.”
“No, it isn’t,” said Harry thoughtfully. “He’s a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don’t think it was an accident he let me find out how the mirror worked. It’s almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could…”
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
Is ‘to help’ a modifier for ‘enough’ or an adverbial to denote the purpose of previous act?
Top answer
enough in order to help . I'll let one of our grammar gurus handle the terminology.
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Complete phrase: ...enough in order to help. I'll let one of our grammar gurus handle the terminology.
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eipjooIs ‘to help’ a modifier for ‘enough’ or an adverbial to denote the purpose of previous act?Neither. It’s a complement licensed by enough.
He taught them as much as was required for them to be of help in some particular endeavor.
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