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fun is a one syllable adjective. but why do we say more fun instead of funner for changing it to a comparative adjective?

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

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venus16why do we say more fun instead of funner for changing it to a comparative adjective?

Because its role as an adjective is not universally accepted, I suppose, so anything goes in casual English.

Usage: The use of fun as an adjective meaning ‘enjoyable,’ as in we had a fun evening, is now established in informal use, although not accepted in standard English. The comparative and superlative forms funner and funnest, formed as if fun were a standard , should only be used in very contexts, typically speech. ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/fun )

Usage Note: The use of fun as an attributive adjective, as in a fun time, a fun place,probably originated in a playful reanalysis of the use of the word in sentences such as It is fun to ski, where fun has the syntactic function of adjectives such as amusing or enjoyable.The usage has become widespread and must be considered standard, though writers may want to avoid it in more formal contexts. The inflection of the adjective (as funner, funnest) is another matter, however. Although this practice goes back to the 1950s, the inflected forms are almost never used in edited prose aside from direct quotations, usually of children. (https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=fun )

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thank  you very much

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