Lesson1 - The Word Fun

The Word‘Fun’

There is a tendency in English to make nouns into adjectives. Sometimes this is necessary because there is no related adjective and the word does not sound right when a suffix is added to it. However, sometimes this is done because of a misunderstanding of the language. One such misunderstanding is the use of the word fun.
We sometimes say or hear others say things like, "He is a fun person" or "We had a fun day." At best, such sentences are nonstandard. Fun is a noun.
This makes sense if you think of how we normally use the word. "We had fun" (direct object) or "That game is a lot of fun" (object of preposition) . The problem comes because, like any noun, fun can be a predicate nominative. So we say, "That game is fun." Fun here is a noun, not an adjective.
As with most nouns, we can speak of something being or having more fun just as we speak of someone having more money or something taking more time. However, expressions such as funner do not exist because fun is not an adjective or adverb.
What does this mean for our language? Well, in everyday speech we often say things that we would never write. To make a statement like "He is a fun person" standard, simply write "He is fun" or "He likes to have fun." To rewrite "We had a fun day," say "We had a day of fun" or "We had fun today."
What is the adjective form of fun? Funny. Of course, funnier and funniest are the standard comparative and superlative.
Some newer dictionaries may note that fun is used an adjective, but such an entry would be found in a descriptive dictionary . Descriptive dictionaries simply describe how a word or phrase is used, but seldom say anything about its usage or propriety. Historically and for precision, avoid using fun as an adjective in any kind of formal or standard speech or writing.

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