§ 105. The adverbial of result has no identifying questions. It refers to an adjective, a noun with qualitative meaning, or an adverb accompanied by an adverb of degree, such as too, enough, sufficiently, so... (as). The adverbial of result is expressed by an infinitive, an infinitive phrase, or complex.
It istoo cold to go out.
The lecturer spoke slowlyenough for us to take down everything he said.
He was foolenough to believe it.
John wasso fortunate as to get the first prize.
He felt he wasenough of a citizen of the world not to mind it.
The adverbial of degree too signals a negative result, enough suggests the necessary amount of quality to perform the action. The correlative phrase so... as implies a realized action, unlike the phrase so as before adverbials of purpose suggesting a hypothetical event. Compare these sentences:
John wasso fortunateas to get the first prize (and he got it) - result.
John trained hoursso as to get the first prize for boating (we do not know whether he has got it or not) –
purpose.
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