![]() ![]() There's nothng wrong with saying "I'm not done yet" or "I'm not done eating yet" because "done" is an adjective and is can come after the linking verb "be", which is exactly what is happening here. Perhaps using "done" this way sounds informal to you, but this does not make it wrong. Why do you hold ELLs to an imaginary standard that native speakers of English do not hold themselves to? I don't think it's necessary to do so. And what makes you say that this does, in fact, fall "outside the norms of classroom English"? If you think there's something wrong with "I'm not done" then I would say you think there's something wrong with saying or teaching "What's up?" along with typical ways to reply to this question. What's wrong with teaching something that falls outside the norms of "classroom English"? There's nothing wrong with it.
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