[Grammar] I haven't got enough confidence(noun)/I haven't got enough confident(adjective)

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dawnngcm

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I'm afraid I haven't got enough confidence(noun) to put my order.
I'm afraid I haven't got enough confident(adjective) to put my order.

Which one of the above is correct?
Is it a natural English? If not, how should it be written.
 

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"I'm afraid I haven't got enough confidence to place my order." You can't 'have' an adjective - usually. If you can it becomes an honorary noun.

"I've got a red jelly bean"
"I've got a blue one."
"I've got a green."
 

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"I'm afraid I haven't got enough confidence to place my order." You can't 'have' an adjective - usually. If you can it becomes an honorary noun.

"I've got a red jelly bean"
"I've got a blue one."
"I've got a green."

As a learner, I usually check usages of those keywords, like get, have got, enough, confident/confidence, to compose my sentence.
There are different examples of,
get + adj./noun,
have got + noun,
enough + adj./noun.

So I am not so sure which one (noun/adj.) should be used:roll:.
 

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It's not enough to say you have examples. You need to produce them (with links), so we have something to talk about.
 
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