As much as this usage irritates me, I think it's a losing battle. The
use of 'fun' as an adjective has moved into the ligua france and, sadly,
I doubt that we can get it out.

  Caroline

> I'm looking for advice on teaching my high school, college preparatory
> level seniors once and forever that 'fun' is not an adjective (or do we
> now think it is?)!  I get an awful lot of writing that includes
> expressions like: "It was very fun (or "so fun," or "how fun it was"). It
> seems that merely pointing it out, marking it on their papers, or grading
> it down is not enough.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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