Upset

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Context: Spoke to me with upset on the phone.  He spoke to me in very upset that he failed the exam.He called me in very upset that he failed the exam. I am trying to use the noun of upset. Please check them.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

kumenglishI am trying to use the noun of 'upset'.

In that case you should not put 'very' in front of 'upset'.

'very' is not used before nouns.

But even if you fix that, we don't say 'in upset'. In fact, 'upset' is not used very often as a noun, so the possibilities are somewhat limited. Probably more than 90% of the uses of the noun 'upset' are in the context of sports, where a team experiences an upset, which is the unexpected outcome of a game (for example, the team was expected to lose, but they won).

When, contrary to all predictions, they won the game, they celebrated the upset in the middle of the field.

In the context you have presented here, you might have something like this:

He phoned me to say that failing the exam was quite an upset for him.

CJ

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