A bit of shy/a bit shy.

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Rollercoaster1

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Are these both phrases correct?
 

emsr2d2

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The first is not grammatical.

He/she is a bit shy.

"Shy" is an adjective, not a noun, so you can't have "a bit of shy".
 

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If that's the case of correcting my phrase, I would be happier if you had corrected it as "Are both of these phrases correct"?

Well, there's gratitude for you. :-|
Your correction does not make much of a difference there, to be frank. Americans appear to use that version more than the Brits do, though.
 

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Regardless of variant, the original did need correcting.
 
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