You have the best shirts dude. Wish I could pull them off. (Not literally)
Made a video of common English mistakes out kids make and give real examples. Bored/Boring, Scared/Scary and Fun/FunnyHope it's useful. https://youtu.be/2AF9MXDQt0g
'fun' is strictly speaking a noun - 'have fun', 'a lot of fun' etc. and while it can act as an adjective, 'we had a fun time' it doesn't behave like one in other ways, e.g. you can't use it as a comparative - 'funner' or with a modifier - it was very fun. I guess how much of this you teach depends on the level but I usually teach 'fun' as a noun and don't comment when they use it as an adjective correctly.
When you start using “fun” as an adjective, however, some people think the fun has stopped. Some dictionaries include “fun,” the adjective, and some don’t.The younger you are the more likely you are to think there’s nothing wrong with a sentence that uses “fun” as an adjective such as the sentence “Squiggly brought fun games.” In that sentence “fun” is an adjective that modifies the noun “games.” You could say “Squiggly brought fun games,” “Squiggly brought boring games,” or “Squiggly brought yellow games.” “Fun,” “boring,” and “yellow” are all adjectives.When I said “Words are fun,” it was the grammatical equivalent of saying “Words are boring” or “Words are yellow.”Modern sources tend to grudgingly accept “fun” as an adjective. For example, Garner’s Modern American Usage says “fun” as an adjective has reached the stage where it “becomes commonplace even among many well-educated people but is still avoided in careful usage.”
One internet source says...So maybe it's an age thing.
The point was to juxtapose when to use fun or funny........We've all heard that student's weekends were "funny." Doesn't really make any sense, not grammatically, but generally/colloquially.
Yes but if a student says my weekend was 'very funny' would you tell him to say 'very fun.'? Or if he said 'very fun' would you correct it?
