hello everyone welcome back i'm teacher sarah today we are going to
talk about two words that are very often confused for english learners
today let's talk about the words fun and funny let's get started so today we are going to talk
about three different forms of the words fun and funny we will talk about fun as a noun
fun as an adjective and funny as an adjective so let's begin with our first form fun as a noun
first let's take a look at fun as an uncountable noun let's take a look at the definition fun
in the noun form means enjoyment amusement or light-hearted pleasure so how can we use this noun
this noun often comes after is something is fun and other popular verbs so what's
that what are copular verbs these are verbs that join an adjective and a noun complement
to a subject so these include verbs like be which is is am r was were seem look sound feel and get
let's take a look at some examples of how we would use fun which means enjoyment amusement as a noun
the party was fun so here we are describing the party right and it comes after uh the verb
is the party was fun it means the party uh there was a lot of enjoyment amusement the party was
fun next that roller coaster seems fun so here this means maybe i'm looking at the roller coaster
and i think it will be fun that roller coaster seems fun i think that it will bring me enjoyment
skydiving looks fun maybe i see someone skydiving and i think wow that looks fun i think
if i did that it would be fun again i would feel enjoyment or amusement and finally one of the most
common uses of fun in this form i had fun or we might hear it in a question form did you have
fun yes i had fun this weekend i experienced a lot of enjoyment and amusement i had fun
the next form of fun is as an adjective this is mostly used informally so here
fun in adjective form means amusing entertaining or enjoyable for example that was a really
fun movie the the movie was amusing it was entertaining that was a fun movie
maybe uh some a movie like godzilla vs kong is a fun movie right exciting wow amusing fun
was it a fun class this means was the class amusing
entertaining or enjoyable was it a fun class
i hope you have a fun vacation this means i hope your vacation is amusing entertaining
enjoyable it's similar to saying i hope you have a good time or i hope you enjoy your vacation
finally let's take a look at funny an adjective this is quite different from the word
fun funny has two meanings we're going to look at today the first and most common meaning of
the adjective funny is something that makes you laugh or something that is humorous
the second way we might use funny is to say something is strange or odd so let's take a
look at the first definition something that makes you laugh for example that comedian was so funny
so here funny is a word we can use to describe people that make us laugh the
comedian told some great jokes and i thought that they were funny they made me laugh
let's look at another example danny is so funny he always makes me laugh so my friend
danny tells a lot of great jokes and every time i see him i laugh a lot so i could say he is funny
the next definition for the adjective funny is something strange odd or unusual
so we might say something like hmm she has a funny way of talking this doesn't mean it makes
us laugh this means it's strange or unusual so maybe she has a different accent or says
things differently than we are used to so we might say hmm she has a funny way of talking
we can also use funny in the term funny looking so for example that's a funny looking animal
this means the animal looks a little strange or unusual so remember
the biggest difference between fun and funny is that fun is used to describe something that
it causes enjoyment whereas funny is just just means something that makes you laugh
or as we see here you can also use it to talk about something that is strange or odd
let's get some practice here we're going to fill in the blanks with the word
fun or funny so let's go through these together number one that was a blank movie
it was so enjoyable so which word means enjoyable or entertaining
here fun in the adjective form that was a fun movie it was so enjoyable
number two our teacher is so she tells a lot of good jokes
okay she tells a lot of jokes she makes me laugh a lot so is she fun or funny
here we would use funny because she makes me laugh she is funny number three i had a
lot of blank with you today so here i want to use a noun right something that we had today
we had a lot of fun today this means we experienced a lot of enjoyment and amusement today
number four i'm a blank person i make people laugh so what i use i'm a fun
person or i'm a funny person if i make people laugh hear funny remember funny makes you laugh
whereas here number five he's a blank guy everyone has a good time with him so he
makes people feel enjoyment and amusement right everyone has a good time with him he's a fun guy
so it can be a little confusing to determine which of these words to use but remember fun
can be used as a noun or to describe uh enjoyment and amusement something that
is enjoying or amusing whereas funny is most often used when we're talking about something that makes
us laugh okay everyone that's it for our video today about the differences between fun and funny
i hope that this helped you and that in the future you will remember which
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