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Yellowstarstruck Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Fun versus Enjoyable

1. Playing tennis is fun.
2. Playing tennis is enjoyable.
Is fun a noun for number 1?
Is enjoyable an adjective for number 2?
3. We had a fun time!
Is fun an adjective for number 3?
4. The party was fun!
Is fun a noun for number 4?
Thanks, Fulvio
  

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"enjoyable" is always an adjective. I would say that "fun" is an adjective in #3 and a noun in #1 and #4. One diagnostic is that words such as "good", "great" or "immense", which cannot modify adjectives, can be placed before "fun" in the latter but not the former.

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  • "enjoyable" is always an adjective.
  • I would say that "fun" is an adjective in #3 and a noun in #1 and #4.
  • One diagnostic is that words such as "good", "great" or "immense", which cannot modify adjectives, can be placed before "fun" in the latter but not the former.
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"enjoyable" is always an adjective.

I would say that "fun" is an adjective in #3 and a noun in #1 and #4. One diagnostic is that words such as "good", "great" or "immense", which cannot modify adjectives, can be placed before "fun" in the latter but not the former.
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My dictionary says that 'fun' is a noun that is also used as an informal adjective.

I would say that the word is in transition. I wouldn't use 'fun' as an adjective in a formal context,
eg in a college essay
eg in an interview for a professiona
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