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Mr Pete Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

why is the superlative of stress 'the most stressed"?

Hi everyone.

I was wondering if someone would be able to tell me why the superlative of stress is 'the most stressed' and not "the stressest".

Big = the biggest
Fat = the fattest
tall = the tallest
stress = the most stressed

All are only one syllable so why would the word stress be different.

Many thanks
  

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Hi, Pete. Welcome to EF! Mr Pete why would the word stress be different?

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  • Hi, Pete.
  • Welcome to EF!
  • Mr Pete why would the word stress be different?
  • Stress is not an adjective.
  • Stressed is the past participle form of the verb stress , and past participles have no comparative and superlative forms, so *stresseder and *stressedest are not possible, but more stressed and most stressed are.
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Hi, Pete. Welcome to EF!
Mr Petewhy would the word stress be different?
Stress is not an adjective. Stressed is the past participle form of the verb stress, and past participles have no comparative and superlative forms, so *stresseder and *stressedest are not possible, but more stressed and most stressed a
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Mr Pete Hi everyone. I was wondering if someone would be able to tell me why the superlative of stress is 'the most stressed' and not "the stressest". Big = the biggestFat = the fattesttall = the talleststress = the most stressed All are only one syllable so why would the word stress be different.Many thanks
Stress is a noun and you can add the suffix
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Ah yes.. Now it makes sense Emotion: smile

Thank you very much for explaining that to me.
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